It is very easy to learn how to speak and write correctly, 1 for all purposes of ordinary conversation and communication, only about 2,000 different words are required. The mastery of just twenty hundred words, then knowing where to place them, 2 make us not masters of the English language, but masters of correct speaking and writing. A small number, you will say, compared 3 what is in the dictionary! But nobody 4 uses all the words in the dictionary or could use them did he live to be the age of Methuselah, and there is 5 necessity for using them. There 6 upwards of 200,000 words in the recent editions of 7 large dictionaries, but the one-hundredth part of this number will suffice for all your wants. 8 course, you may think not, and you may not be content to call things by their common names.