How Many Words Are There In The English Language?

This question came up today while we were having a brainstorm session with our developers. Google was only a click away so here you have it:

“All told, estimates of the total vocabulary of English start at around three million words and go up from there. Of these, about 200,000 words are in common use today. An educated person has a vocabulary of about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 in a week’s conversation.”

From: http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm

Oh, and we still don’t have a place to sleep in or near Luxembourg. We did receive a few invitations for London, Paris and Amsterdam, thank you!