WORDS PEOPLE USE.
A learned professor has carried out some laborious experiments to ascertain the number of words used by people of different ages and classes. He finds that the EngUsh-speaklitg adult of ordinary education uses 25.0C0 different words, a result which does not tally with the estimate of certain scientists, who assert that the average man gets along comfortably with some 4000 words, and the child with a few hundreds. The first subject of the professor - * experiments was his little daughter. At the ag* of two she was found to be using in her dally chatter no fewer than 1227 differed, words; while at the age of four the number had Increased.to 3300. The dally conversation of a yonnp gentleman of six was found to consist of 4600 different words. At the age of fourteen the average number of different words \* use was ascertained to be 8000. At twenty-ln the case of a 'tudentthey had risen In number to 16,000, while at maturlty-ln the case of a highly educated man-the number was 33.000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 17
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