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TABLE 7.— SUMMARIZING TABLE: COMPARISON OF LANGUAGES 
AMONG THE ENTIRE TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN THORNDIKE’S 
TEACHER’S WORD-BOOK. 
Language Groups 
Derivative 
Word 
Total 
Percentage 
of Total 
Words 
Index 
Number 
Total 
Percentage 
of Total 
Word 
Occurrences 
English 
3,209 
35.15 
95,101 
50.52 
Latin 
4,198 
45.98 
67,992 
36.11 
Greek 
657 
7.19 
8,962 
4.76 
Scandinavian 
376 
4.12 
7,465 
3.96 
German 
198 
2.17 
2,909 
1.54 
Other Teutonic 
90 
0.98 
1,336 
0.70 
Other Indo-European 
239 
2.62 
3,177 
1.69 
Other Languages 
163 
1.78 
1,304 
0.69 
Grand Total 
9,130 
188,246 
Omitted Words (Proper 
names, etc.) 
870 
Thorndike’s Total 
10,000 
