{"id":335,"date":"2009-06-21T21:28:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-06-21T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T01:30:59","slug":"one-in-sixty-million-or-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"One in Sixty Million or So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman\">The Perseus Collection of Greek and Roman Materials<\/a> provides a convenient list of <strong>Word Counts by Language<\/strong>. As of half an hour ago, the totals were:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>English<\/strong><br \/>\n(42,956,587 words)<br \/>\n<strong>French<\/strong><br \/>\n(2,001 words)<br \/>\n<strong>German<\/strong><br \/>\n(426,929 words)<br \/>\n<strong>Greek<\/strong><br \/>\n(8,263,757 words)<br \/>\n<strong>Italian<\/strong><br \/>\n(178 words)<br \/>\n<strong>Latin<\/strong><br \/>\n(9,244,457 words)<br \/>\n<strong>Old English<\/strong><br \/>\n(1 word)<br \/>\n<strong>Other<\/strong><br \/>\n(3,318 words)<\/p>\n<p>I want to know how a single word of Old English slipped in among the tens of millions in other languages, why it isn&#8217;t listed among the &#8216;Other&#8217; languages, and &#8212; most important &#8212; what word is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseus Collection of Greek and Roman Materials provides a convenient list of Word Counts by Language. As of half an hour ago, the totals were: English (42,956,587 words) French (2,001 words) German (426,929 words) Greek (8,263,757 words) Italian (178 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}