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Show finite ramifications of human thought, as well as everything In our three dimensional materia! ma-teria! world ail these can be expressed accurately accu-rately and gr aphically by changes in the mathematical math-ematical arrangement of twenty-six . alphabetical alpha-betical letters. The simple little alphabet Is right up near the bead of the list of greatest Inventions. ' ; -e : , . - o About Your Word " HOW many words cn you define? The average person can read and understand from 8000 to 10,000 different words. Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly makes this estimate.. He's managing editor of tv standard dictionary. Quite a different matter Is the number of words we have at the tip of our tongues and use in talking, compared with words we grasp when we read them. Very few of us use more than 7oo words in talking, recording to some authorities who have checked up. Shakespeare's vocabulary included about 24,-000 24,-000 words. Woodrow Wilson, in seventy-five seventy-five speeches, used 6221 words, and Dr. Vizetelly estimates that Wilson in his writings used a vocabulary of at least 60,000 words. Words change style the same as clothes, Dr. Vizetelly comments. He illustrates by pointing out that the sport who wore a silk . shirt was formerly called dude, but the word "dude" has gone out of style, now that the rank and file of the people can afford silk shirts. Changing word styles are more evi- cent m sianj. . "Put , oa a little speed"' 'Make H snappy," then to "Jazz it up." Once she was a "flirt," no- a "vamp." The "cop" of a former feneration now is called a "bull." n another century no one will be able to read One of George Ade's "Fables In Slan;,M and understand It without win; a slang dictionary, for slang rapidly becomes obsolete and for-' for-' gotten. . Richard Huelot compiled the first English dictionary m 1552. The supply of words has grown enormously since then. Contemplate a modern dictionary, growing rapidly to suitcase suit-case size though printed in small 'type on thin paper, and it is hard to believe that such a maze of words are made up of varying com-1 com-1 iitionj of only twenty-six letters of the al-j; al-j; l-irel. Tb. finest shades of emotion, the in- |