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Show HAS A LARGE VOCABULARY i ; i Number of Words Used by Small Child Will Surprise One Who Is Not a Close Observer. i How many words does the ordinary child know? Fifty? Wrong. A hundred9 hun-dred9 Wrong again. Five hundred, for a wild guess9 A little nearer, but not much The truth is that people underestimate the number of words their children can speak Take a paper and pencil, follow tho child for several days, several weeks, patting down every new word that Is uttered. You'll find out some things that will surprise you And when tho V word "child" Ib used, it docs not refer to a hoy or girl of seven or eight, but one of three. An investigation recently made by following a child at that age and not- ! lng every word that was used, showed that It had memorized 1,771 different words. They covered practically Mi everything with which tho child came Ij In contnet, and were words the child IS had never heard before. al Another investigation of words used u by children between 1 year and 19 If months old showed that the lowest vo- : ll cabuiary that was reported Included 7 the uae of GO words The highest was A 232 words. From two years on, the I vocabulary of a child Increases rapid- ly, until at three years the average 1 child haa a vocabulary of at least 1,00" i ? words. fl |