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Not the Queen's English; Non-native English-speakers now outnumber native ones 3 to 1. And it's changing the way we communicate.(Cover Story)
Byline: Carla Power (With Sudip Mazumdar and Hindol Sengupta in Delhi, Paul Mooney in Beijing, Katka Krosnar in Prague, Emily Flynn and Marie Valla in London, B. J. Lee in Gyeonggi, Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Henk Rossouw in Johannesburg, Maria Amparo Lasso in Mexico City and Jaime Cunningham in New York)
The name--Cambridge School of Languages--conjures images of spires and Anglo-Saxon aristocrats conversing in the Queen's English. But this Cambridge is composed of a few dank rooms with rickety chairs at the edge of a congested Delhi suburb. Its rival is not stately Oxford but the nearby Euro Languages School, where a three-month English ...
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...four national languages already, but English is making a strong bid to become the fifth...language. One of the first signs that English was on the rise was the move by canton...impatient for their children to learn English that they are enrolling them in the growing...
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...m a language chauvinist--I believe English is the greatest of all languages when...really do feel that a case can be made for English on several grounds--some well-established...verification. To summarize: The number of English words The polyglot nature of English words...
Source: HighBeam Research, Not the Queen's English; Non-native English-speakers now outnumber...