In the days of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and John Milton (1608-1674) there were hardly 60, 000 words in English vocabulary.That has grown to over a million today. 

Now more than 750 million people use the English language. Only one third of them have English as mother tongue.

An extensive vocabulary becomes an important asset, because words are the building blocks of thought. They are the means by which we understand the ideas of others and express our own opinions in an effective and clear manner. 

• An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 words in a week. 
• Despite its widespread use, there are only about 350 million people who use it as their mother tongue. 
• It is the official language of the Government and business in many countries besides International bodies like Olympics. 
• More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals as well three quarters of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables are in English. 
• About 80% of the information stored in the world's computers (such as this text) are also in English. 
• English is also transmitted to more than 100 million people everyday by 5 of the largest broadcasting companies (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC). 
• Technology also plays a huge role in English's global triumph. Eighty percent of the electronically stored information in the world is in English; 66 percent of the world's scientists read in it, according to the British Council. "It's very important to learn English because [computer] books are only in English," says Umberto Duirte, an Uruguayan IT student learning English in London. 
• If in writing English you neglect punctuation, or mispunctuate, your are liable to be misunderstood. For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

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from cradle to grave. Formal education has less relationship to vocabulary achievement than you might expect, indicating that people can improve their word power on their own. This and the related linking sites will show you how to expand and to improve your English vocabulary skills. Now, it is up to you to take advantage of these rich vocabulary resources! 

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• New technologies are helping people pick up the language, too: Chinese and Japanese students can get English-usage —tips on their mobile phones. 
• English-language teachers point to the rise of Microsoft English, where computer users are drafting letters advised by the Windows spell check and pop-up style guides. 

In the temple town of Varanasi, India, Sanjukta Chaterjee says she's astonished by the way her 7-year-old son learns the language, through CDs and video. "Our teachers were strict that we should practice, and speak the language till we were near-perfect," she says. "Now there's an additional technological finesse to learning English."