Was looking through the Inspirations catalogue today; one of the spreads featuring kitchen items is labeled "kitchen kitch". Sigh...

English vocabulary includes somewhere around 600,000 words, whereas Latin-based languages such as French, Italian, and Spanish encompass around 150,000 to 180,000 words.

My (English) husband says English is the most "efficient" language. If you take a look at the (EU compliant) labelling on packages over here, it appears to bear this out; whether describing an item or listing ingredients, the bits in English are almost always *considerably* shorter than in any of the other (11?) languages.

Cheers,

YY