The first attempt to list ALL the words in the English language was " An Universall Etymological English Dictionary" , compiled by Nathaniel Bailey in 1721 (the 1736 edition contained about 60,000 entries).

第一次尝试列出英语中所有单词的是“通用词源英语词典” ，由纳撒尼尔·贝利 (Nathaniel Bailey) 于 1721 年编写（1736 年版包含约 60,000 个词条）。