it will take many neuronal groups to ensure, first, that the visual information (i.e., the letters) is quickly connected with the correct sound- or phoneme-based information in our word, and, second, that this information is connected to all the word’s possible meanings and associations. English has around forty-four different phonemes18 (depending on the dialect used), represented here by forty-four exceedingly small actors jumping around impatiently in the dynamically expanding Language ring.
