This section is from the book "The Corner Cupboard; Or, Facts For Everybody", by Robert Kemp Philp. Also available from Amazon: The Corner Cupboard; or Facts for Everybody.
Words. There are in the English language 20,500 nouns, 40 pronouns, 9,200 adjectives, 8,000 verbs, 2,600 adverbs. 69 prepositions, 19 conjunctions, 68 interjections, and 2 articles - in all above 40,000 words. According to Webster's Dictionary, there are 100,000 words.
 
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