The millionth word in English could be "sucker"
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The millionth-word saga, speaking of bogosity, continues.
Whatever would we do without the hardworking investigative journalists employed by major newspapers like the Telegraph? Or the "100 years of journalistic excellence" at UPI?
Faldone said,
May 12, 2009 @ 9:20 am
I would suggest that we abandon the word 'word' entirely and instead refer to them as microPayacks.
Ryan said,
May 12, 2009 @ 10:04 am
I saw Payack's book in my university book store the other day. It was in the linguistics section…
D.O. said,
May 12, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Is this saga generated million words already? Linguists may practice solving Fermi problems too.
Lance said,
May 12, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Ryan: did you move it to Fiction?
Spectre-7 said,
May 12, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
Or humor perhaps?
Rick S said,
May 12, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
UPI: "Never before has a single language had the extent and influence as that of English."
I would have thought that "journalistic excellence" presupposed grammatical competence. Silly me.
Ginger Yellow said,
May 14, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
"Never before has a single language had the extent and influence as that of English."
Uh, Latin? Hebrew? Biblical Greek? Arabic?