How long does it take to read The Loom of Language?
a guide to foreign languages for the home student
Frederick Bodmer
The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer takes about 12 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1943. 669 pages, about 183,975 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies, Modern Languages, Study and teaching, Indo-European languages, Linguistica, Woordenschat
