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C.K.Ogden, E.C.Graham
Basic English International Second Language, revised and expanded
(C) 1968 Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
LC 68-28654

This particular edition uses 850 words as the basic corpus

page 47:

"What is Basic English?"

"Basic English is an attempt to give to everyone a second, or
international, language which will take as little of the learner's
time as possible."
"It is a system in which everything my be said for all the purposes
of everyday existence: the common interests of men and women, general
talk, news, trade, and science."
"To the eye and ear it will not seem in any different from normal English,
which is now the natural language, or the language of the governments,
of more than 600,000,000 persons."
"There are only 850 words in the complete list, which may be clearly
printed on one sideof a bit of notepaper. But simple rules are given for 
making other words with the help of those in the list; such as designing,
designer, and designed from design, or coal-mine from coal and mine."

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