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- Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever.
I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.
Paging flagamuffin.
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greatscott · 3856 days ago · link ·
Every now and then that subreddit produces some real gold.
coffeesp00ns · 3856 days ago · link ·
This is really cool information, but I think that the way in which writers use the words that they have is more interesting.