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Marc Dion: The strong, silent type

Summary by The Dispatch
“How many people said the word ‘cigarettes’ today?” I asked my wife, Deborah. “Or ‘book of matches,’” she said. We were trying to figure out how America ended up with a net loss in words spoken. A serious magazine called “Perspectives on Psychological Science” says we speak 28% fewer words every day. According to these folks, in 2005, we spoke 16,600 words a day. That was down to less than 12,000 per day in 2019. Where did the words go? “We shou…
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The Dispatch broke the news on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
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