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ELDRIDGE 750

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[…] The first 750 words in list No. 5, with their repetitions, constitute more than three-fourths of all the words on the eight pages from which they have been drawn, and probably a large part of these words would be found in nearly the same proportion in any English conversation or printed matter. […]

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Eldridge was quite convinced about these 750 words:

[…] If instead of these 750 English words, an eclectic vocabulary was formed from all the prominent languages, the fittest word having the same meaning being chosen for each of these 750 English words, and if this eclectic vocabulary was grafted upon all the prominent languages of the world to the exclusion of all other words having the same meanings, the world would have to that extent a universal vocabulary, and these 750 words with their repetitions would constitute not much if any less than three-fourths of all the words commonly used. […]

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