English Through Pictures, Book 3.
May 2005 Edition Available from Pippin Publishers, Toronto, Canada, as a 3-volume set for US$35 or Can$40, free shipping. Paperback 4.25" x 7" ISBN 0-88751-117-1 .

  * Computer -- good, this is a valuable new international word that needs to be acknowledged.
  * CD -- is added to disk and tape. It is treated here as a word not a an abbreviation for compact disk. Practically, we consider all capitalized words as proper nouns acceptable in Basic. This "word" is fine for contemporary use and teaching. However, consider the history of media -- piano rolls, 78s, 45s, 33s, tape, 8-track, cassette, Beta, diskette, 5-1/4, 3.5, disk, CD, HST, VCR, DVD, MP3, thumb drive. flash card -- a permanent selection is probably best made from basic words., such as record, music- record, disk, diskette for a prolonged period of time. Note that diskette is a new international word. A new word will be the fad by the next edition. TV has a similar argument. However, the word "television" was introduced by the 1973 edition.

2. The second thing was to see how Book 3 fits with Basic English. Richards had views for Basic as a fuller language, overlooking Ogden's goal of being the simplest way to learn language for daily living. Ogden sought the smallest, complete vocabulary and grammar for use as an international second language and to allow the learner by full entry into English communication at the earliest time. That such a language is an excellent first step to go on to learn more English is fully natural. Of the 444 words introduced with Book 3 , 214 are new. Of these, 110 words are part of Ogden's defined next steps beyond Basic, so are in agreement with Basic. This means about 100 words are new by Richards, not Basic.

The Index of earlier editions indicated the introduction pages where each word is first introduced separately for noun forms and verb forms; this is removed in this edition -- only the first use in recorded.

Ogden's Next Step or other lists :	84 leaves 130
Standards: Month, Day, Co, Measures	25 leaves 105
Technical:	17
Medical	7
Arts:	4
Synonyms of Basic words :	20
Americanisms 5, other synonyms 15:
Verb forms, different word :	10
Redundancies:	4 leaves 43

• Standards :
  Month Names - 12 ; Days of week - 7 ; Countries - 3 : America, Canada, Mexico^* ; Measures - 3 : century , gallon , pound,
  * - Capitalized words -- 22 of above - are proper nouns and are accepted as common to all languages.
• Technical : abacus, astronomer, astronomy, barometer, carbohydrate, carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, formula, microscopic, nitrogen, oxygen, photosynthesis, protein, scientific, scientist, sulphur {sulfur}, thermostat
• Medical : doctor , nurse , pulse , artery , vein , retina , shiver,
• Arts : artist , draw , gallery , sculpture , studio
• Compounds :
  breakfast (after break is introduced) ; art gallery - this is two words (after gallery is introduced.)

• Common in English and the Basic expression is complex :
  fuel, planet, mirror, service, spell, should
• Reduce multiple definition words into one word as New words replacing a longer basic expression. Or where multiple definitions for one word are placed with that word :
  reflect, type,

• neither , nor -- why raise this for explanation when "not either one or the other" is fine.
  Where "neither" is not either  and  "nor" is use in mathematics as not or. In normal English "nor" is used only after a "neither" phrase and means "and not".
• Verb forms, specially when different from basic word : depend (be dependent), die (death) , invent (make an invention), organize (make an organization), pay (make a payment), prove (give proof), sing (give voice to a song), sit (take a seat), subtract (subtraction, take away). think (have a thought),
• Synonyms :
  Americanism of Basic Words:
  apartment (flat), can (tin), car (cart, automobile), piece (bit), student (learner)
  • Other : above (over), asleep (sleeping), below (under), energy (force power), fast (quick), find (discover), ocean (sea), often (frequently), occupation (work), poetry (verse), shape (form), speech (talk), try (attempt), until (till), want (need, desire)
  These are acceptable words, but perhaps is would be better to spend time to learn the missing Basic words of the international second language.
• Redundancies, addition of two similar words : dinner, supper (chief meal); count, tally (addition)

1 . Find the number of Basic words introduced in each book. The advertising says 250, 500, and 500. Indexes say 308, 436, 444. Early advertising said, 250 each, which is probably close to correct because many of the words are derivatives of Basic roots, ie. -ing, etc. Therefore there are probably 100 other Basic words not taught -- likely to be the most difficult to make pictures.   We must make a list of these missing words for a real Book 3. This will make the current Book 3 -- which goes on with a mix of Basic, "next step", and completely new words that are not Basic -- as book 4. A useful book 5 would address idiom and new generation words. Teachers and the self-teaching learners need to know what words they have to teach or learn on their own.

ACTUAL is 222, 264, and 153, leaving 213 words unaddressed.
The missing words are listed below.

2 . The English Through Pictures books have been so popular, teaching millions, we must determine if any of the current Book 3 words have entered the mainstream of Basic such that they should be incorporated in the 21st Century project. The first step is to include the Book 3 new words with those of other experts : Hogben, Longman, etc. in an effort to seek agreement.

3 . Make a list of current Book 3 new words so the teacher and learner know which words are not pure Basic and be cautious in their use. Add a Richards' List to the Supplemental Basic Lists. For the learner going on to fuller English, this point is not very important. But, Basic as an International Second Language is fixed, such that advanced words beyond the Basic will be foreign and unknown to millions of persons who have knowledge of Basic.
Example: is "occupation" better than work or is "piece" better than bit ? Is "chlorophyll" more useful to replace any one of the untaught 200 of the Basic 850 words?

SEE : New words and Supplementary words learned in Book 3.

angry, base, behavior, belief, chance, condition, cruel, delicate, disgust, event, expert, feeble, female, foolish, force, frequent, join, kind, opinion, ornament, process, regular, sad, sign, substance, sudden, tendency, violent.

Word Lists

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abacus above afternoon alive alone alphabet apartment artery artist ask asleep astronomer astronomy barometer below born bring buy can candle cape car carbohydrate carbon dioxide carry carton ceiling century chapter chlorophyll city climate compass continent count counter cube depend die divide doctor draw eastern eat energy factory fast feed feed-back feed-forward few film find formula fuel gallery gallon graph hot hungry interdependent invent just know listen microscopic mirror must neither nervous nitrogen noon nor ocean occupation often organize oxygen patient pay per cent philosopher photograph photosynthesis piece planet poem poet protein prove pulse reflect reflection retina scientific scientist sculpture sell serve shape shiver shop should sick sing sit speak speech spell stand student studio subtract sulphur supper tally tape telescope tell temperature thank thermostat think thirsty truth try uncle understand unite until vein waitress want

area bean beetle blanket both bottom break breakfast cave cell chair child circulation cool corn dinner empty evening experiment flour foreign fresh heavy hold home human husband image lamb large lemon length lens life lunch lung many mean melt mill mouse nature next nucleus nurse paragraph parent pendulum people poetry population pressure proof rectangle sentence service sheet shoulder show since soil spot stream supply surface tomato too travel triangle truck universe valve vegetable volume weak wheat whether wife world wrist