j Shakespeare, who had the richest vocabulary used by any Englishman, employed onlyq 16,000 words. The average man rarely has a vocabulary of more than 3000 or 4000 ' words. The ordinary person can yet along very comfortably with 500 words, and in the rural districts a knowledge of 200 words is sufficient to carry a man through his life. This, of course, relates to the ;needs of conversation. If a man wants to read newspapers am' well-written] books he must know at least 2000: words. J
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 245, 15 October 1940, Page 5
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