The Simple English Wikipedia has a preference (not a rule) that words be chosen from the Basic English lexicon where possible. See http://simple.wikipedia.org/w

The Simple English Wikipedia has a preference (not a rule) that words be chosen from the Basic English lexicon where possible. See http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia#Simple_English http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wi.... It may come as a surprise that the word "random" does not show up in even the quite inclusive Basic English combined wordlist, http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_English_combined_wordlist http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_English_com....