If I May Use Some of It

If you've ever surfed your way to the Oxford English Dictionary's website, you'll know that there are approximately 600,000 words in the English language. Yet a Dec 2015 update to the OED online reveals that, even when disregarding archaic nouns and verbs, only a tiny fraction of this 600,000 is commonly used.
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