The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words.
as at November 2005 there are 59 million words listed over 22,000 pages and it would take a single person 120 years to type and 60 years to proofread
about 30,000
how many words are there in the oxford English dictionary 2nd edition?thank you for your answerstormy