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In every cultivated language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, comprises the whole vocabulary. First, there are those words 21 which we become acquainted in daily conversation, which we 22 , that is to say, from the 23 of our own family and from our familiar associates, and 24 we should know and use 25 we could not read or write. They 26 the common things of life, and are the stock in trade of all who 27 the language. Such words may be called "popular", since they belong to the people 28 and are not the exclusive 29 of a limited class.
On the other hand, our language 30 a multitude of words which are comparatively 31 used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there is little 32 to use them at home or in the market-place. Our 33 acquaintance with them comes not from our mother"s 34 or from the talk of our school-mates, 35 from books that we read, lectures that we 36 , or the more 37 conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing some particular 38 in style appropriately elevated above the habitual 39 of everyday life. Such words are called "learned", and the 40 between them and the "popular" words is of great importance to a right understanding of linguistic process.

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