From: Ian Hobson <ian.hobson@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T03:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> all the words of their language (up to 1,000,000 words or more).
>
>   
Sorry Pascal,

French has between a third and half a million words. It is English that 
has 1 million.

*http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uBHnmdafnjUC&pg=RA1-PA14&lpg=RA1-PA14&dq=how+many+words+in+french+language&source=bl&ots=NaJWUQrkUm&sig=kF7hOP-zFA2wkogK0LSBGSyLWvo&hl=en&ei=W4d0SqHrEYXQ-Qbe4pnMBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=&f=false
(Page 15)

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm

I guess this is because the English adopt words freely, while the French 
consider this act "corruption" of the language.

Enjoy Le Weekend!

Ian