About the English Language

In the 1960s engineers at Bell Labs were designing the first touch keyboard telephones.

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According to new research, the English language has doubled in size over the last century and continues to grow 'by 8,500 words a year and now stands at 1,022,000 words.'

Oxford English Dictionary editor, John Simpson, explains how Japanese words entered English in three distinct historical phases.