Ultimately this appears to have precipitated a shift away from the English Premier League to La Liga for the world's best players as Spain becomes the preferred destination of choice.

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Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.

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Many English soccer fans under 40 still seem to be reeling from the world cup victory that happened before they were born.

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The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").

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The only hope for English to remain the lingua franca till deathbed is a peaceful world and lots of love from non-native speakers.

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We had coaches from all over the world on our course and the SFA seem to be some years ahead of their English counterparts in the development of coaches.

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