And the Oxford English Dictionary says both pronunciations are acceptable.
That's because, as the editor of the English language version of the Phnom Penh Post says to me, somewhat ruefully, they know hardly any Cambodians will read or hear it.
If the future Archbishop of Canterbury insists on the covenant, bits of the communion may reject the arrangement whereby an English prelate chairs the global fraternity, says Frank Kirkpatrick, an American Episcopalian priest.
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The coalition government says it is reviewing English language requirements across the visa system.
"It's the oldest story in the world, " says Norman Gimbel, who wrote the English lyrics.
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, says the low turnout in the English council elections shows that Labour is right to press ahead with local government reform.
English Heritage says the Carisbrooke Romano-British villa is now classified as a "top priority at risk building".
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Nobody says that the English must threaten to secede, as the Scots did before they got their Parliament.
"I've been talking about the new Silk Road for years, " says Chu, whose clipped English accent is the legacy of British schooling in colonial Hong Kong and a university education in London.
He says the importance of English cannot be overstated in today's India.
Nonetheless, Rogers did not feel the environment was conducive to staying in the English game after his announcement and says he would have found it hard to come out at any global club -- after being asked whether he could have done so during a 2007-2011 stint with MLS side Columbus Crew.
Outside of the top flight, Deloitte says that for many years the second tier of English football, the Championship, has struggled financially.
"After events in the Arab world we took the chance to claim our rights too, " says Ali, an unemployed English graduate on the march.
But the government says it is already a compulsory National Curriculum subject and the English Baccalaureate is to encourage more students to take up geography and history in addition to RE - not instead of it.
"It's quite amusing that the location of the burial of an English king should be of such concern in the States, " says Mayor Peter Soulsby.
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Prof Mills, who has worked in Cheshire for the last 30 years, says he was surprised at how little his English friends knew about the explosion until he showed them photos taken on the day, which he inherited from a family friend.
"A few years ago we decided to unify the school systems, " says Glenn English, Haverhill's first-ever town manager.
"I don't think there is any other composer who set the English language better to music, " says tenor Nicholas Phan, who has recorded two albums of Britten, and will perform in the "War Requiem" next November with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony.
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"In our view, maths and English tells the story - you can't fudge maths and English, " he says.
The Wales Office says that's only one fifth of the equivalent cut in most English departments, and the Welsh government is protected by the decision to protect NHS spending in England.
Massively popular contemporary U.K. crime writers like Ian Rankin and Colin Dexter haven't replicated their huge success in the U.S. "There's a traditional structure to the English crime novel, " Mr. James says.
At Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Intensive English Program doesn't teach a slang expression until it is in use for more than one generation, says David Johnson, a professor of English and director of the program.
Music critic Christian Bordal says a young English band called the 22-20s are mining some of that same territory on their first CD.
And Dr George Garnett, a history lecturer at Oxford University, specialising in English history in the 10-13th Centuries, says that while Magna Carta has proved to be enormously influential, that wasn't its original intention.
EST, it will become the first station to broadcast an English-language, 24-hour news channel from the Middle East, which it says will be watched in 80 million cable households.
"There's dirt under their fingernails, they probably don't use the best English or have the best table manners, but they have 10 to 20 employees, " Mathile says.
The UK Home Office says that in the year 2011-12 about 9, 000 attempts to cross the English Channel illegally were thwarted by British officers at Channel ports in continental Europe, the BBC's Maddy Savage reports from Paris.
Deloitte says the new TV money could help more English clubs into the top 20 in a year's time.
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman, who has campaigned over GCSE English grades, says it shows trust in the exam system is at an "all time low".
Though the campaign has captured the public's attention, both within Saudi and abroad, where an English version has made the rounds online, Al Faisal says she doesn't see the ad as shocking.
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