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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 ...
- All my relations: Jesus' lilies of the field are like native spirituality.(THE...
- Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record Randall, Keith February 1, 2007 700+ words
...director of Harvard University's Native American Program. In Advancing Aboriginal Claims, he notes that English and other Euro-languages are noun-oriented, and very good at dichotomies and categories: saint-sinner, black-white, man...
- FOOTBALL; THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL 2002; ENGLISH-LATIN THROUGH THE YEARS.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald November 27, 2002 700+ words
...Year-by-year of the Boston Latin-Boston English contest, the oldest continuous high school...36-13) 1887: Boston Latin 16, Boston English 0 1888: Boston Latin 38, Boston English 0 1889: Boston English 10, Boston Latin 4...
- THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL 2003; LATIN-ENGLISH HISTORY.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald November 26, 2003 700+ words
...Year-by-year of the Boston Latin-Boston English contest, the oldest continuous high school...36-13) 1887: Boston Latin 16, Boston English 0 1888: Boston Latin 38, Boston English 0 1889: Boston English 10, Boston Latin 4...
- English decor is the U.S. rage now
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Carleton Varney March 26, 1989 700+ words
English decorating is having its day in America - and I think lots of the English rage can be credited to the royal family, even...decorating schemes in America, and we are all thinking English chintz and paneled rooms and Queen Anne tables and...
- English Warfare, 1511-1642.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Albion Wheeler, James Scott December 22, 2002 700+ words
Mark Charles Fissel. English Warfare, 1511-1642. (Warfare and...researched book. Fissel "examines English land warfare from 1511 to 1642, blending...three major questions: Was there an "English way of war?" How expert were English...
- ENGLISH FLUENCY LAGS IN PALMDALE.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 15, 1998 700+ words
...district and the one with the most non-English-speaking pupils, has lagged behind...of its students who become fluent in English. In 1997, just 0.01 percent - that's two pupils - of limited-English-speaking students were redesignated...
- ENGLISH ACCUSE SCOTTISH OF PREJUDICE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) November 27, 1997 700+ words
...problem'' of Scots racism against the English is to be investigated by Britain's Commission...which has backed legal actions brought by English people in Scotland, has asked the lobbyist group English Rights Scotland to compile a ``discrimination...
- English as she is mis-spoke . (teaching standard English)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 16, 1988 700+ words
...oneMandarin? Martian? Microcircuitous?-but for the time being it makes do with English. Which English, and for what time being? Some sensible teachers of English fear that the time will not be long if some other teachers are not more rigorous...
