Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — Words in English Use. [ARTICLE]

Words in English Use.

The English vocabulary has grown to great size, According to Prof. Clark S. Northup of Cornell university. "The number of words found in old English literature does not exceed 30,000; recent dictionaries hqve listed more than 400,000.— Popular Science.