Do You Know?
How many bowls to make a boulder? How many shoals to make a shoulder? How many lambs to make a llama? How many drains to make a drama? How many bats to make a battle? How many' rats to make a rattle? How many folk to make a focus? How many croaks to make a crocus? How many quarts to make a quarter? How many ports to make a porter? How many fans to make a phantom? How many banns to make a ba*tam? How many aches to make an' acre? How many fakes to make a fakir? How many wraps to make a rapture? How many caps to make a capture? How many sums to make a summer? How many* plums to make a plumber 7 How many picks to make a pickle? How many ticks to make a tickle? How many capes to make a caper? How many tapes to make a taper? How many tons to make a tunnel? And how much fun to make a funnel? — Chums*
— There are 382 million Chinese speaking the same language, making Chinese the most spoken language. There are so many dialects which are entirely different that they seem scarcely to belong to the same tongue. The inhabitants of Mongolia and Tibet can hardly understand the dialect of the people in Pelcin. Putting Chinese aside, the most popular languages are as follows, in millions: — English 120, German 70, Russian 68, Spanish 44-, Portuguese 32.
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Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 78
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246Do You Know? Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 78
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