Published in Science, that paper gave the best-yet estimate of the true number of words in English a million, far more than any dictionary has recorded (the 2002 Webster's Third New International Dictionary has 348, 000).

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Consult any good Latin dictionary for the words for government, military and politicians.

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Just double tap any word to get the dictionary definition or translation and with one more tap, learn more about the word through Wikipedia.

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The Irex also lacks a Home button, a note-taking function, any way to highlight text and a built-in dictionary.

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For, despite their differences, the 70m users were still predictable enough that a generic password dictionary was effective against both the entire sample and any demographically organised slice of it.

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There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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