what is the one millionth word in the english language?

I can say with complete confidence and authority, the one millionth word in the English language is, (drum roll please) "pterodactyl".

No discredit intended toward Tajas or any of the lexicographers whose determination it was that "Web 2.0" is the one. Their findings are exemplifying how vast this language is. My finding is simply the word which came into use in that order and includes all the words that have been part of the English language, but fallen out of use too.

Who would decide what words were useless? If the words are not used, it's as if they don't exist, anyway, so what does it matter whether they are officially eliminated by some fool(s) who has the time to research every dictionary available to find never-used words. Besides, I just may want to use some forgotten words, as I do from time to time, just to watch people act as if they understood me. Oh--and some of your examples make no sense, so it is clear you really dont understand some of the (very simple) word replacement examples you give. "Quiet" is not the same as "silent;" we need both. A car's engine can run quietly, but it's running, so it's not silent, (which is the absence of noise). I can speak quietly, but I can't speak silently. A car going ninety miles an hour is going fast; it is not going quick. Then there's "quip," a remark or comeback, commonly involving humor, but a witticism requires cleverness and intelligence, with a subtle humor. Sorry, but meaning matters; many words are simply not interchangeable.

I don't think there's a language on Earth that literally contains a million words, though I could be wrong. Last I checked, even if you buy a really thick dictionary, put together by one of the more reputable publishers of reference books, the number of entries is far less than one million. But perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly?

Writting any alphabet one million times makes it one millionth word

Depends a little on where you start, but if you begin with one, two and three, the millionth word would be:

"million".

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yep ... its Web 2.0 check out these cool articles on the web. even though I read about this in local news papers I didnt know english really such a huge list of words! jai ho ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/80...

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