Did you know?
Over 360 million people are native English speakers.
More than 1 billion (1,000,000,000) people speak English as a second language!
The country with the most English speakers is the United States, where well over 250 million people speak the language.
English has probably the most words of any language. However, it can depend on what you count as a separate word! If you include technical, scientific and other specialized terms, there are thought to be over 1 million (1,000,000) words in the language.
The single word ‘set’, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary.
