Show A VOCABULARY TEST How often do we find diffIculty in thinking of Just dust th the right word Ito express a certain idea Even the best winters l must often stop to W weigh their words In order to hit upon the most appropriate appropriate ate one whIle few speakers can observe all the niceties of expression expression sion without writing out theIr speeches and memorizing them be- be beforehand beforehand forehand This is not due to any lack of words In the English language however Possibly It may be a result of our having too many to choose from The latest unabridged dictionaries contain more than words and the list is increasing constantly Noah Websters Webster's fIrst dictIonary published in 1828 contained only about Words the edition of 1864 Included and that of 1890 about as ac compared with the recognized recognized words today Yet PresIdent WIlson who was one of the foremost masters of EnglIsh m in 75 publIc addresses used a total of only dIffer dIffer- dIfferent different ent words In three of his published books however he used about ThIS shows that vastly more words are used in w than in speaking A leading lexicographer estImates that the educated person If faIr abIlIty understands on the average about words but uses only a small part palt of that number In eIther speaking or writing The mass of people know and use less than words of the aVaIlable An interesting experiment IS to inspect a few pages of an un- un unabridged bridged abridged dictionary and count how many words wOlds out of a hundred J you ou al are e really famIlIar wIth both as to spellIng and meaning fry It |