DISCOVER the SHAPE of ENGLISH - How many words are in the English language?

The English language is a wonderful thing.

I think it is possibly the best language in the world.

A lot of people agree.

Over the years, this is the reason why English has become a very popular language.

I think English is special in one particular way. Is because it is always evolving.

It is always changing.

I like to imagine that wonderful scene from Ghost.

You know the movie I'm talking about, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

They are sitting at the potter's wheel.

'Oh my love, my love'

'My darling...'

'I hunger for your touch.'

And they are both

caressing the clay.

They are shaping it.

And I like to think that English is a little bit like that.

It is always being shaped.

It is always changing.

You can mould English.

As time goes on, you will find that the English language does change.

It is always changing.

One of the main reasons, of course, is over the past thousand years,

English has evolved by, well various means.

Assimilation is one of the things.

Of course, parts of other languages have been absorbed into the English language,

so other languages have been taken.

The nice parts, the juicy parts, the exciting parts,

and they have all been absorbed into the English language.

And that process is still going on to this very day.

You will find even myself as a native English speaker...

I have to make sure that I keep up to date with all the expressions, all of the new terms,

and of course popular words as well.

There are many words in the English language.

There are around 1 million words in the English language...

I should know.

I have counted them all.

That was one heck of a night.