[27-3] Cf. post, p. 81, note 1.
[28-1] Ency. Brit., vol. ix. p. 597.
[28-2] Ibid., vol. ix. p. 594.
[28-3] Ibid., vol. ix. p. 596.
[29-1] J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People, London, 1898, vol. ii. p. 934.
[29-2] J. G. Millais, Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, London, 1907, p. 339.
[29-3] Henry VI., Pt. I., Act II., Scene i., line 29. Cf. John Bartlett, Concordance of Shakespeare, London, 1894—" Guess."
[30-1] Also Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales, _(A) _The Prologue," in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, W. W. Skeat ed., Oxford, 1894, vol. iv., line 82: "Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse." Ibid., line 117: "A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse."
[33-1] The world contains one hundred and sixty million English-speaking people, according to Whitaker's Almanack, London, 1913, p. 99. Of the one hundred and twenty millions computed to have been under the control of the Roman Empire only a portion spoke Latin.
[33-2] The Outlook, New York, August 9, 1913: "Four new words are added to the English language every day, if we may accept the dictionaries as a standard of measurement. During the last three centuries the rate of growth of the dictionaries has been 1500 words a year. In 1616 John Bullokar . . . published his Compleat English Dictionary, with 5080 words. . . . There are now in fact 600,000 English words, but about one-quarter of this number are rare scientific terms or words that are obsolete or obsolescent." Cf. Boston (Massachusetts) Transcript, May 28, 1913, Franklin Clarklin, "A Supreme Court of the Language ": "This year will see the issue of an English language dictionary containing 450,000 words. It is said that the largest German dictionary including personal words has 300,000 words, a French one 210,000 words, a Russian and an Italian 140,000 words each, and a Spanish 120,000 words."