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Here, kind Reader, let me call your attention to the
relation between two of the many meanings of the word "word";
for it will illustrate something of wider importance. There may be
something like twenty occurrences of the word "the," on each page
of a book, on the average; and when an editor talks of an
article of 5000 words (which mode of [answering?] matter was invented
by Dr. Edmond Eggeston, and is now usual) every one of these occurrences
is counted as a separate "word." In another
sense, however, everybody will agree that there is but one
"word" in the English langauge that is spelled THE, and that
this is the very same "word" that is pronounced dhi (in the
notation called [Luis's?] English Classic.) In the former sense, a
"word" is an existing thing, composed of certain line in ink on a certain