Q: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
"We found the number of people who knewor knowabout VERBATIM to be astonishing: in Europe, among ordinary people interested in language, among linguists, among scholars in general, most knew of it; alas, they didn't subscribe."
A:
"We found the number of people who knew or know about VERBATIM to be astonishing: in Europe, among ordinary people, linguists, scholars in general"