Words Used In The English Language

In ïeïir-nje to the number of worda in our lamguage, and the number derive.l ïiom i-li sreat source, Max Mulle.' saya: "Sheat's Etymo'.ogical 0 ,;l, v of the EniglisH hlanguag?, which cünihv.s itselt to primary I -srorcte- thet is to say, wM;H would rxplain luck, Irat mot luuky, unluci or lmkliss ; multitud, 1 ut not ïuv.hiUulinous, etc, deals wltli no more Hum 13,500 (unies. Öf these 4,000 are of Teutonfc ori-gin, r,,000 are taken trom the Frem:h, 2,700 direct trom Latin, 250 from Oeltic, and üxe rest il.25O) from yavious Bources. Alangtuage te, aiter all, not so toewllderhig a thimg as it seems to be, wüen we hear of a dictionary of 250,000 warde. For all ordimary purposes of lite a dK-tiouary oi 4,000 worde Lvould bè quïte Bufftelent." The. material of the Englleh langwage may theröfor be taken to al:out 13,500 worfls. Thr number of entri.es in onr graal aictionaries is swelled ly includirag all possiblfl compöumdSj multitudes of teehnical se: entüfc words, and all the parts 0 8pee h except plurals and pos vi s, giving few batanee, únder love Ixvetó88, lovely, tovJmgly, unlOTel'j etc, umi ly including obselete word and Bpellhogs, and many temporar :md elaing words manuiaetured fo oiiie Bpectel uee. To put the voc-alnüary of educated pewra at 4,000 ïvords only, would Irowcvrr. eeem raither illilieral, although the vocabulary of agricultural la"borcrs ia England is said not to èxeeed Kix lmndred words.- English AVords, Souvenir spoons of elegant design I at Arnold's.