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speech sounds occur. They form 96 per cent of the total occurrences 

 of the words. It is to be noticed that no word was observed to occur 

 in all the conversations. 



Of the 1,503 different words not shown on the list, 819 were ob- 

 served only once and 320 only twice. It is quite likely that if the 



