According to the article by Teresa Tinsley, 'Academics believe that with 1,000 high-frequency words you should be
able to understand about 72 per cent of a written text, so it’s an
important first hurdle in breaking through communication barriers
internationally'.
Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both
victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere
veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant, vanished.
However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified,
and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding
vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of
volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive
not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate
the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage
veers most verbose, so let me simply add that its my very good honour to
meet you and you may call me V.
A group of students at De Montfort University created this fly-through
of 17th century London. The model focuses on the area around Pudding Mill Lane and the
bakery of Thomas Farriner, where the Great Fire of 1666 started.
