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Friday, March 23, 2012
Dictionary and encyclopedia. Both have thousand of words in them.
It's estimated that Shakespeare used over thirty thousand words, many more than most people. The King James Bible uses a vocabulary of about eight thousand words.
Estimates vary from around 1700 of the 17,676 words he used. However, it is very difficult to trace word origins to their original source. Often the word first appears in writing in Shakespeare's plays but may have in fact already been in use. See the related links section below for more information.
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wbriggs/qr/shakespeare.html"Shakespeare knew approximately 66,534 words - There were 31,534 words that Shakespeare knew and used and approximately 35,000 words that he knew but didn't use"This is one of my questions where someone found the answer for me already - Ashok kumar J