Culture | The future of English
English as she was spoke
The days of English as the world’s second language may (slowly) be ending
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The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. By Nicholas Ostler. Walker & Company; 368 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
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