Given that this dictionary has 1 comma 400 pages with defined words, estimate the total number of defined words in the dictionary. Is that estimate likely to be an accurate estimate of the number of words in the English language?

if we say 30 words per page, 42,000 words

the answer is irony!

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.