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means The units of language we speak or write to carry meaning, the building blocks of every sentence.
from From Old English 'word,' a word so old it kept its shape for over a thousand years. It traces back to the Proto-Germanic 'wurdan' and beyond that to a Proto-Indo-European root 'wer-' meaning 'to speak, to say' — the same ancient seed that, traveling through Latin, gave us 'verb' and 'verbal.' So when you say a word, you're echoing a sound humans have been making, in some form, since before history was written down.
- daily count
- Average person speaks about 16,000 words a day
- oldest
- "Mother" and "fire" trace back tens of thousands of years
- total stockpile
- English holds over a million words, most unused
- speed limit
- Brain recognizes a word in under 200 milliseconds
- ghost words
- Dictionaries once printed fakes to catch plagiarists