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Date: 2006-09-13 03:27 am (UTC)I just did something with my students a few days ago where we looked at the notion of your working vocabulary. Apparently, from counts of lexical items and frequency in Shakespeare, he had an extremely, extremely large working vocabulary of around 29,000 words, where the average modern person (they didn't say if it was a modern English speaking person) has a working vocabulary of around 9,000 words. I hope that I'm up in the higher range, I've got to say. We're wasting an awful lot of words in English, if 9,000 words is more common.
Here is the Wikipedia stuff on English lexical items: