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A Wonderful Growth

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 17.

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A Wonderful Growth.

From an English dictionary of 5,080 words by John Bullokar in 1616, to Samuel Johnson's of 50,000 words of 1775, was a great expansion. It was another great step to Webster's 160,000-word dictionary; but the new 1913 "Standard Dictionary" will have a vocabulary of 450,000 words and terms. That work will stand as the climax of dictionary-making up to the present.