The use of English around the world gives London an edge over other European centres.
Fostering a wider use of English has been a main item on the government's education agenda.
He proposed more emphasis on the use of English, and a new oath of allegiance for people seeking naturalisation.
There is anger over the use of English in preference to Malay.
The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.
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It is also likely that the development of tools to support greater multi-lingual and multi-script use of the Internet will lead to further rapid growth in digital heritage in parts of the world that are currently disadvantaged by the predominant use of English on the Internet.
Another key trait marking the population's distinctive cultural identity is the use of an English-based creole vernacular known as Gullah.
The three most expensive jurisdictions were the U.S., U.K. and Canada, all of which use the English system of common law.
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Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
The fruit of this effort, now known as UEB, was approved by ICEB in 2004 and is now in use in much of the English-speaking world.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey, approximately 80 percent -- or 223.2 million people -- of Americans use only English at home.
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).
It might work for an occasional SMS where use of the Queen's English isn't a priority.
It is also significant as it may also have seen the first use of artillery in warfare on English soil.
That means they have to rely on what is known as "relay" interpretation: interpreters listen to an English-language translation of say a Latvian speech, and use the English version to interpret into other languages.
He offers a journalistic account of its worldwide use in tandem with a historical one of the development of English as it made its way around the world.
One man with a mental age of nine has a vast memory for foreign words and the use of grammatical endings, but he cannot seem to break free of English word-order.
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But if the genius of English invites you to use it with precision, why not?
That means Graph Search will only be available to a very small number of people who use Facebook in US English.
This effort to open up, teach in English and then make use of an international mix of talents to galvanize innovation at home represents an even more dramatic shift.
For most Japanese (data suggest over 80 percent), English is of little practical use.
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Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.
This is now part of the general set of comments and phrases which we English use to describe the world.
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The first to move east were the most international European companies, which tended to use English as their international working language regardless of their base.
There are lessons in spoken English, etiquette and even on the use of a fork and knife.
The NFL, NBA, NHL, some NCAA sports and major tennis tournaments all use a form of replay, and even FIFA and the English Premier have adopted goal-line technology.
None of them had any interest in telling steelworkers how to use English.
The English Football Association declared its readiness to back the use of video or other technology designed to help referees.
And Mr. Caine is only one of countless English and Irish actors who use the English language as an instrument to convey music as well as words.
The relative cheapness of such projects, compared with the use of big breaks for foreign investors, may also commend them to the English development agencies, which will have smaller budgets than their Scottish and Welsh counterparts.
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