Ms. Johnson, 23, is a former English teacher who says she wants to shift to a career in business or entrepreneurship.
She says English-speakers who feel uncomfortable at the notion of bargaining should open their minds and have fun with it.
"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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"It's the oldest story in the world, " says Norman Gimbel, who wrote the English lyrics.
"Beards are hideous things if you ask me, " says Attree, who sports a traditional English moustache.
"Overnight, the variable costs of a transaction have tripled, " says Mr. English, who runs a marketing company that devises payment programs for vending machines.
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".
"The apostrophe has a function, " says Thomas Gasque, an English professor who spent years on South Dakota's Geographic Names Authority.
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For instance, Manzoor Bahadur, who runs a large clothing retailer, complains that parents lose control of their children when their youngsters learn English, and says that children who spend time at school in Pakistan do no worse (and sometimes better) than those who stay in Bradford.
But two changes seem to be taking place in English football, says Dan Jones, who heads the sports group at Deloitte.
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Ben Hills is an Australian investigative journalist who says he interviewed more than sixty Japanese, American and English sources for his unauthorised biography of the troubled princess.
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"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
Mr. Elias was "not the easiest person to deal with all the time but he's dug his heels in, " says Bernard Clarke, who has represented BCCI's English creditors for more than 15 years.
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.
"I would describe it as a combination of two great languages to create a new expression that is richer than just speaking English or Spanish, " says Cristina Burgos, who last year decided to write a blog in Spanglish.
Madiha Sarwar had to take the language test in Lahore in Pakistan before joining her husband in east London, and says it has given her an advantage over those who did not speak English before they arrived.
"Concepts embedded in linguistic behavior, " involving emotions and latent intentions, "allow you to predict" a range of outcomes, says David Kaufer, a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop DocuScope.
The next day we talk to an Afghan general, Sayed Malook, who says he is heart-broken by the killing and wishes he could speak English so he could tell Captain Barrie's family how deeply sorry he is.
He calls for the apprentice's accomplishments to be robustly tested and validated, and says they must include high quality attainments in maths and English for those who have not got GCSEs in the subjects before they start.
Jim English, who works with a group of 17 vending-machine operators, says that their interchange fees have jumped from roughly six or seven cents a transaction to the federally regulated 21 cents.
After raising two young children who speak French, Greek and English, and learning to speak Greek herself, she says she has never in her 12 years in the city felt unwelcome in Athens.
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.
Since then Ms Barton says she has focussed funding on hiring highly qualified teachers and on extra support for pupils who struggle with English and maths, including one to one tuition for those in danger of falling behind.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
Chameroy says he knows there are people who'll be upset by the pairing of the greatest dramatist in the English language with a pop band.
He says that, with the transliterations, some Thais wind up pronouncing the words more accurately than English speakers who struggle with Swedish.
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