Total Number of English WordsSource: Global Language Monitor, Google Corpus
Research Date: 9.24.2012
The English language continues to grow each year and has almost double in the past 50 years. According to the Global Language monitor “Web 2.0″ was the one millionth word added to the English Language..
Total number of English words (2012) 1,013,913Number of words created each day on average 14.71980 900,000
1950 600,000
1900 525,000