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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16452, 14 June 1921, Page 9

The English ■ language contains between 400,000 and 500.000 words. The average Englishman uses about 1-500 words, while a highly-educated man may use as many as 5000. There are not many Englishmen, however.' who use more than 4000 different wo.rds. Paris University .Library is to have a collection of gramophone records reproducing the voices of the great men of modern France. The three marshals of France will be asked to read the most famous orders which they issued during the war. A five-ton erkwe which was being used to place granite blocks in position on the Dover Patrol memorial obelisk was overthrown by a violent gust of wind, although it was embedded in four tons of concrete.