3. +The Spoken Language and the Written Language-- a Caution.+-- We must not forget what has been said about a language,-- that it is not a printed thing-- not a set of black marks upon paper, but that it is in truest truth a +tongue+ or a +speech+. Hence we must be careful to distinguish between the +spoken+ language and the +written+ or +printed+ language; between the language of the +ear+ and the language of the +eye+; between the language of the +mouth+ and the language of the +dictionary+; between the +moving+ vocabulary of the market and the street, and the +fixed+ vocabulary that has been catalogued and imprisoned in our dictionaries. If we can only keep this in view, we shall find that, though there are more Latin words in our vocabulary than English, the English words we possess are +used+ in speaking a hundred times, or even a thousand times, oftener than the Latin words. It is the genuine English words that have life and movement; it is they that fly about in houses, in streets, and in markets; it is they that express with greatest force our truest and most usual sentiments-- our inmost thoughts and our deepest feelings. Latin words are found often enough in books; but, when an English man or woman is deeply moved, he speaks pure English and nothing else. Words are the coin of human intercourse; and it is the native coin of pure English with the native stamp that is in daily circulation. 4. +A Diagram of English.+-- If we were to try to represent to the eye the proportions of the different elements in our vocabulary, as it is found in the dictionary, the diagram would take something like the following form:-- Diagram of the English Language. +-----------------------------------------------------+ | ENGLISH WORDS. | +-----------------------------------------------------+ | LATIN WORDS | | (including Norman-French, which are also Latin). | +--------------+--------------------------------------+ | GREEK WORDS. | Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, | | | Hebrew, Arabic, Hindustani, Persian, | | | Malay, American, etc. etc. | +--------------+--------------------------------------+