I don't know if this is that link, but it fits the bill:
It gave me 36,800
I'm encouraged that there are more words for me to learn
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To illuminate these numbers, the vocabularies of famous English writers range from 15,000 to 30,000 unique words [1].
[1] https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/shakespeare_un...