sentence1: I examined many pages of its index here and there as samples of the whole, and estimated that it contained fully one thousand words expressive of character, each of which has a separate shade of meaning, while each shares a large part of its meaning with some of the rest. » – فرانسيس جالتون، قياس الشخصية، 1884 وعلى الرغم من المحاولات المبكرة لجالتون في الدراسة المعجمية للشخصية، فقد مر أكثر من عقدين من الزمان قبل أن يستكمل علماء اللغة الإنجليزية عمله.
sentence2: I examined many pages of its index here and there as samples of the whole, and estimated that it contained fully one thousand words expressive of character, each of which has a separate shade of meaning, while each shares a large part of its meaning with some of the rest.“ – Francis Galton: Measurement of Character in Fortnightly Review 36: 179–185 (1884) Begründet durch die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Psychologie, wurden die ersten Untersuchungen zur Galtons Überlegungen im anglo-amerikanischen Raum durchgeführt, und dementsprechend an germanischen Sprachen.