Books and languages

This summer the English as a language will reach the numer of one million words. ( 1.000.000). Last month the numer was official 988.968 words. An American organisation : Global Language Monitor (GLM) is watching this. The total amount of an English-speaking person is between 24.000 and 30.000 words. Even when you know 3.000 words you are able to speak and let others understand you ... (see me,lol) The increase of English is going faster then other ones. French has 100.000 words, Spanish 225.000. We in The Netherlands also have about 100.000 words. Still enough to have a lot of books. Show you two stamps of 1991 concerning library work in our country for 200 years.