An English learner's entrance into the public school system usually starts with a home language survey, which asks whether another language is used at home and which language the child speaks most frequently.

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Other questions were on the establishment of a national water grid, eliminating Japanese knotweed from the UK and the language trends survey 2011.

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"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.

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The report, Public Attitudes Towards the Gaelic Language, followed a survey of the general public and a separate survey of 56 fluent Gaelic speakers.

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More work remains to address persistent causes of undercounting, such as poverty, mobility, language isolation, low levels of education, and general awareness of the survey, in addition to duplicate counts among the elderly and college students living away from home.

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