Show YOUR 0 WORDS How 1101 many words do you know the meaning on of The average person per per per-Json I Ison son can read and understand from to different words Dr I makes makes this this os- os es Fran H Hes He's He managing editor or Of orthe othe I Inmate the New Standard dictionary Quite a different matter Is the number of words we we have at the tip of ot our tongues and use In talk talk- talking lug ing compared with words fords we grasp ling when we read them Very few of ot us use more than words in talking according to some authorities who have checked up Shakespeare's vocabulary v In- In Included In Included eluded words J Woodrow Wilson I speeches used words estimates that Wilson In his writ writ- writings writings ings used a of or at least words worda Words change style tho the same as asI I I clothes Dr comments He Illustrates by pointing out that the who wore a silk shirt was I formerly called a dude but the Word dude has gone out of style now that the tho rank Tank and file lie of the people can can afford silk shirts Changing word styles are pore more evident In la slang Put on a little speed changed to Make it snap snap- snappy snappy py py then to Jazz it up Once she sheI was a flirt now a vamp The I cop of a former generation now Is called called a bull In In n another century no one will willbe bo be able ble to read one of or George Ge George rge Ados Ado's tables Fables In Slang Siang Slang anS an understand i without using a slang dictionary for slang becomes obsolete te and forgotten for tor- gotten Most of the short stories by O 0 Henry are similarly handicapped Richard Huelit compiled the first English dictionary In 1552 The supply of ot words has grown enor enor- enormously enormously enormously since then Contemplate a modern modem dictionary growing rap rap- rapIdly rapidly idly to suitcase size Ze size though though print print- printed printed ed In small type typo on thin paper and it i is hard to believe that such sucha a maze of words are made up of I varying combinations old of only 26 letters letters of the alphabet The finest shades of ot emotion the infinite ramifications of human though as well as everything in our three dimensional material world all all these theM can be e expressed accurately and graphically by byI I changes la is the ar u- arrangement J Jt of ot 26 alphabetical let letters tars t The simple blue little alphabet is right up near the head head of the list of greatest inventions |