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  • “For, insofar as a culture is scientifically literate, then of course their wordstock too will be over a million.”

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  • “So anything that crosses linguistic boundaries in this way is irrelevant as far as a language's wordstock is concerned.”

    On the biggest load of rubbish...

  • “He was also worried because several of the terms in the wordstock involved profanity, which he didn't know if that belonged in an academic paper, but I assured him they did.”

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  • “I agree that incent has reached the general speaking public, at least in the United States, and therefore warrants inclusion in a descriptive account of the wordstock available to us speakers of American English.”

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  • “It's easiest to do between related languages, which means that English, with its varied wordstock, is a particularly tough language to translate poetry from or to.”

    languagehat.com: POETRY TRANSLATION IN CANADA.

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  • AnWulf Wordstock - a stock of words, vocabulary, lexis, terminology

    A kenning of word+stock. A stock or store of words. Aug 24, 2011

‘wordstock’ has been looked up 239 times, added to 2 lists, commented on 1 time, and is not a valid Scrabble word.