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  2. The Two Thousand Words - Wikipedia

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    Ludvík Vaculík (2010), the author of the Two Thousand Words manifesto. "The Two Thousand Words" (full title: 2000 Words to Workers, Farmers, Officials, Scientists, Artists, and Everyone; Czech: Dva tisíce slov, které patří dělníkům, zemědělcům, úředníkům, vědcům, umělcům a všem) is a manifesto written by Czech reformist writer Ludvík Vaculík.

  3. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    RedFox Pro Online dictionary. The free version has over 300,000 Finnish words and the Pro version has over 800,000 Finnish words. The dictionary has agglomerated other dictionaries, such as technical ones, [6] and the largest set comes from Wordnet. [7]

  4. Novella - Wikipedia

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    Among awards, a range between 17,500 and 40,000 words is commonly used for the novella category, whereas 7,500–17,500 is commonly used for novelettes. [26] [27] [28] According to The Writer, a novelette is approximately between 7,000 and 20,000 words in length, anything shorter being considered a short story. [29]

  5. Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 8 August 2024, there are 6,864,487 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.6 billion words (giving an average of about 681 words per article).

  6. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    Origin/etymology. A pic with thousands words. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes ...

  7. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [ 20 ] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

  8. Gadsby (novel) - Wikipedia

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    57759048. Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written without words that contain the letter E, the most common letter in English. A work that deliberately avoids certain letters is known as a lipogram. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of protagonist ...

  9. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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    Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.