There was nothing new to say about it in English, so I described it in French.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

And they say this is because it is so difficult in English to tell how a word is pronounced from the way it is written.

BBC: Scientists find cause of dyslexia

Because California has so many schoolchildren 5.8m of them, of whom 1.5m have only limited proficiency in English it needs, the teachers say, a special test of its own, and not one pulled willy-nilly off the national shelf.

ECONOMIST: Mine! No, mine!

In France the young use an increasing number of English words, including main verbs, and say it is "cool" to accept the triumph of "franglais" (as their elders call it).

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