I'm wondering how many items, just a rough guess, would be on a list of all the terms used in and around typography, with at least one meaning, in 6 centuries. That would include all the non-English terms, translated into English and added, if unique to the list. . . 7,000? 10,000? 30,000!???
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Not being a lexicographer, I’d be reluctant to hazard a guess on six centuries and hundreds of languages.
I'm going with 2013 words, and then one new one each year.
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"...how many typographic terms have only one meaning."
"Punch" has only one meaning as a noun, and one as a verb, which is pretty good after 6 c.
And "later", I think, has also been universally agreed upon throughout?