It was the easiest solution, and created a practical, flexible and adaptable peasants' language in about 150 years.

ECONOMIST: Letters | The

There they will meet tutors who are respectful of their talents and who are able to give them the extra language support, training and practical advice that will enable them to earn a living as soon as possible.

BBC: Human traffic. Your earlier comments

The consultation paper "sets out proposals to remove or reduce the language support given to non-English speaking candidates taking theory and practical driving tests".

BBC: Driving test translations and interpreters may face axe

This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.

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Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.

WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Higgs Boson | Mind & Matter