Learn New Words, Keep the Old

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Published April 16, 2005 at 6:00 PM HST

Commentator Ruth Levy Guyer estimates that she knows more than 83,000 words. But she's unable to use all of them in this brief contemplation on the power and joy of learning new words.

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