She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

Fiona Wood
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When John Donne wrote, “She’d always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language — more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under,” he was speaking about how much power words have to describe the world.

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