English: The new lingua franca for better or worse

From its beginning as a mixture of Scandinavian languages, French, German, Celtic, Latin and Greek, English has always been an international language. When Shakespeare was writing, only 6 million people spoke the language. However, with industrialisation, combined with the British Empire and the international influence of the United States, the use of English has become […]

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