posted April 29, 2006 10:02 PM           

It's just in Star Signs the rules are no more than 15 letters of the alphabet, and no more than 3 vowels.

posted May 03, 2006 07:44 AM         

If you have a phrase or an entity with, for example, 22 SEPARATE letters, and all 5 Vowels, you then can generate nearly every word in the English language. It doesn't mean that you should not and can not lexi it, it's just common sense to expect that you can get thousands of words.

The more condensed the word the better. I thought Linda's 'rules' were more common sense than anything else. She never said to alter a word before you Lexigram.

In addition, if by accident you add a letter when you Lexi, then some will always see it as an 'accident' and remove it, or some others will see not so 'accidental'...it's not something to fuss over really. Follow your intuition, always.

posted May 03, 2006 08:49 AM           

1,000,000 words
(including scientific words)

Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 10. Grolier, 1999. "The vocabulary has grown from the 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to the tremendous number of entries -- 650,000 to 750,000 -- in an unabridged dictionary of today." 650 - 750,000 words
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 1989. "In addition to the headwords of main entries, the Dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of 616,500 word-forms." 616,500 words
Webster's Third New International Dictionary. G&C Merriam Co., 1971. "This dictionary has a vocabulary of over 450,000 words." > 450,000 words
Wilton, David. How Many Words Are There In The English Language? Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins. 7 February 2001. "The OED2, the largest English-language dictionary, contains some 290,000 entries with some 616,500 word forms." 616,500 words

Have you ever encountered a person who just keeps on rambling on and on with no end in sight. If you have, you might have wondered if he/she would ever run out of words to say. Unfortunately, that will remain a dream for all of us.

As we enter the Twenty First Century, English is the most widely spoken and written language on Earth. English was first spoken in Britain by Germanic tribes in Fifth Century AD also known as the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) period. During the Middle English period (1150-1500 AD), a lot of the Old English word endings were replaced by prepositions like by, with, and from. We are now in the Modern English period which started in the Sixteenth Century.

The number of words in English has grown from 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to about a million today. There are a number of ways in which the English vocabulary increases. The principal way in which it grows is by borrowing words from other languages. About 80% of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Another way is by combining words into one word such as housewife, greenhouse, and overdue. The addition of prefixes and suffixes to words also increases the immense vocabulary of the English language.

Today, more than 750 million people use the English language. An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 words in a week. Despite its widespread use, there are only about 350 million people who use it as their mother tongue. It is the official language of the Olympics. More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals as well three quarters of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables are in English. About 80% of the information stored in the world's computers (such as this text) are also in English. English is also transmitted to more than 100 million people everyday by 5 of the largest broadcasting companies (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC). It seems like English will remain the most widely used language for some time.

Johnny Ling -- 2001

posted May 05, 2006 03:01 AM         

You're right, it is very revealing, perhaps we should start a new string on it.

Yes there are many many words in the English language, the more closer you get to using the 26 letters of the alphabet, and all the vowels, it's obvious you generate and abundance of words, so many infact you could write a book!

I still stand by what I said it really does make sense to me.
But Fayte, I totally admit to lexigramming really long phrases and names, even with all 5 vowels. I have really become attuned to lexigramming that I often reveal things using intuition. I often forget the rules and just go for it.
It's nice to have heaps of words to play with.