That means English is much better, right?

The Independent has recently published an article celebrating the fact that some time this summer the English language will reach its 1 million word mark. Apparently, on the 21st March the English language consisted of 988,968 words. Global Language Monitor - an American linguistic consultancy - claims that it has developed an alogorithm which can accurately count the number of words in the English language. According to the article, English is by far winning the "language with the biggest number of words" race, as it is 'evolving' faster than any other language. Apparently there are 225,000 words in Spanish, 200,000 in German, 125,000 in Russian and - guess what? - only 100,000 for the French. Any indications why English speakers are usually monolingual?
Full article here .