1937-04-10 — Page 20

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1937.

Smith should be

to

use 36,000

words

"He uses "I" more than

99

any other word-you' less than half as often

OT

No

many people to find out what were the most im

portant words for children to learn could tell you the at school. size of Smith's

vocabulary. Most of them

LATER a professor carried out an investigation to try would numble something to find out whether clerks who wrote letters for banks needed an extra about the average person large vocabulary; he took more than having a vocabulary of 1,000 1,000 letters and read through 87,581

words,

The same man carried out a still words or so.

For larger analysis for a university.

his work he drew on a store of more than 5,000,000 written words.

Checking up Smith's vocabut apy nol' an easy job.. Of course, you could try following him round listening to his.conversa- tion, but that would be a whole time job and need considerable fetters, skill with shorthand.

But if you could find out how many different words Smith writes and die tales-that would be 'some kind of Kulde.

Several people have tried this out. Back in 1021, 2,000 letters sent in to

He got letters written by people. in twenty-six different types of busi- ness, he buttonholed university pro- got them to persuade stud- fessors, ents to analyse their own persona!

And this wasn't all.

got And specimens of letters of application anci hold of recommendation; he got writing other than letters, such as minutes of meetings and committee reports.

lfe arew, too, on previous word counts. He even weighed up fre- the editor of an American newspaper quency counts of words found in were analysed; the investigator hoped several of these sources and toned

Here's

a test to

show your chances

of being tall

NAKE an equal number of counters of two colours, say Twhite and red. There should be at least a hundred of each kind. Place them in a bag and shake up well.

Imagine that these represent, say, the blackness or whiteness in guinea pigs, or the tallness and shortness in sweet peas. Suppose the red counters represent dominant characteristics-blackness or tallness.

Pick out the counters, without looking at them, two Now count the number of double reds (pure at a time. falls or pure blacka), red and white pairs (talls or blacks carrying recessive shortness or whiteness), and double whites (pure shorts or pure whites).

You will find that this proportion-works-out-roughly- to three tall or black, to one short or white. The experi- ment illustrates the Mendelian law of heredity, worked out with sweet peas by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), an Aus. Lriati monk.

down the frequency counts of words found in only one source,

1

able

"A" gets 350,110, "the" 500,001 credit. "You" is used less than half as often as "I gets a frequency count of 338,819,

We For

232,770- 204,320

"Education" is one of the first 1,000- words that Smith uses.

*

Even when he has learned the 10,000 most common words, foreigner can't depend on under alanding, everything Smith says.

Here are a few words, none of them uncommon, that are not in the 10,000 words Smith uses most ofien: Abolition, caste, peasant, recur, pirate, swivel, cog, hip, harp,

-Hera pro a few. more words taken sophisticated d

at random from the list of Smith's.

"hate"

only 1,090 times.

There are plenty more like these. So next time some one says that.

of 5,138,810 words there were in these timbuláry:. "Love" was used 14,434 Smith only, uses a small vocabulary

So.

"Girl". was used 7,161, "beautiful" you'll know what to say.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Authoriend Capital

50,000,000 Imoed and Pully PalUp ****** 320,000.000, Hesarro Funde

terling.

€ 6,500,000 Hongkook Currency Reserva. 10,000,000 Reservs Liability of Proprieturs $20,000,000 HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG, BOARD UP DIRECTORS |~~~ G. Miskin, Fa.. Chairman.

WHEN he finally looked over W the list, he found that out

ordinary letters written from Smith to Smith, 36,373 different words used. only 2,400 times.

Smith worries a good deal about When the. 38,373 words had been Hated in order of frequency. It was money, he wrote J 8,383 times, but found that 10,000 of the words had he used the word "salary" only 754 beon used more often than ten times. times.

You might think that words which

Smith doesn't write about chorus were used only ten times are not girls, but the word "cashler" gets 338

But very common ones.

Smith mentions. "Cardinal" ties with "ente wouldn't think

buretter" at 20 mentions. If Smith use

vises a word ten tlines In 5,000,000 words he must use that word many more than ten times dur- ing his life. Five million words isn't So you can take it that a

very

large quantity. Smith would

foreigner learning to talk cover it just by reading seventy everyday Smith language should learn average-length novels.

at least 10,000 words. Moreover, lols of common words And the first ten words that he A. 11. Compton. Esq., Hon. Mr. J. J. Patersol only just come into the first 10,000 ought to learn are the dull words Jon, Mr. S. 31. Dodwell, T. E. Pearre, Pa... words of Smith's vocabulary.

that Smith uses most aften, Here. R. Masson, Fad A. L. Shields, Ext "Latch" "scissors," "haughty," they are (the figures afterwards

V. M. GRAYBURN, E., "eyebrow," "arrow," "overflow," were show all used fewer than fourteen times, value); relative frequency

CHIEF MANAGEIL BRANCHES~~

They came within the last 500 of Smith's 10,000 words,

There are some words that Smith is always using. The most used word of all is "I" Smith uses it more than 700,000 times in every 50,000 words. "A" and "the" don't come nearly so high in frequency.

NDL

M. Johnson, Faq., Deputy Chairman.

J. K. Houafiebl, Sag..

their

AMOY

715,130

DANGKOK

The

500,001

And To

$11,583

BATAVIA

HOMBAY

400,770

CALCUTTA

A

350,110

CANTON

You

334,812

CHEFOO

Of

332,710

COLOMBO

In

265,531

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SNEEZING

JHEN we feel mothered with a

cold in the head, few hearty sneczes clear the air passages and give us temporary relict. Sneezing is an accomplishment which we share with many animals, useful in modera- tion, but paroxysms are most exhausting,

By Family

Doctor

If the paroxysm is due to the effect of light, the eyes must be shaded or covered with dark glasses. Should the nasal passages be obstructed, a careful examination will reveal the trouble. A polypus (soft recurrent growth in the nose) or a spur on the nasal septum will have to he blown by compresing first one nostril and then the other, and when the sneezing starts the mouth should be closed. This will force the offending particle out via the nostrils. If this fails, consult a doctor.

The Individuni who is very sensi- hay-fever, making life more toler- tive to polien should avoid the coun- able..

Small doses of soda bicarbonate

try in the early spring. If this is not after meals may abate the attacks,

be nostrils. should possible, the

as may a prolonged dosing with

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rent liquid of which there are many

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ACROSS

1 Replacing and succeeding.

This may pinch, on account of the ruffled hose,

10 Such apes frequently have no

tails.

11 Give out what's in the mitten. 13 Secks to know.

15 Fruit, with time, may be gay

or sober.

10 Two-thirds of a league of

shivery discomfort?

1

17 A riddle no one can edive→ except, of course, cross-word fons. 19 Conjunction, 20 Not the kind of double called

for in a pub. £3,000,000

Fills 21 +1,800,000

1,050,000 square.

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DANKERS.

mmany

cross-word

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DENSON.

piece of armour that has

24

The pl

scription.

27,

a constellation of its own....

Approach it at the end. 28 Acute at, being made to set in

motion. 20 Diann's

sprightly nymphs. 32 One of the cross-word halves. 33 A bit rough, don't you think? 34 A case where the employer.

makes use of a ruse,

35 Decks with a bell, not fitted on

ships.

2 Standard.

DOWN

3 Belled (anag).

4. Just an opening word.

5 Scrapes through life “gendarmo

chiding" (anag., hyphen

0 Quick at the root,

7 The Electric Light Brigade know

how to do it too.

Rose Inaptly changes her in- dividuality.

12 Toa dear, in

France? This gives-the requisite instruction. 14 A frightful row in which a god

and a devil are involved.

15 Another form of 9:, likely to be

wet.

18

Supports for a time.

22 Fish, but not in plain words, 28 Harrler?

20 Considering both sides,

27. How to hasten in Greece.

30 It may appear to involve a

widgeon

31 Not all there.

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