Improving the English Language…
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.
European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is [...]
English The World’s Language.
The first significant step in the progress of English towards its status as a world language began through the voyages of English sailors at the end of the 18th century, notably the journeys of Captain Cook in the 1770s. At that time, the number of mother-tongue English speakers in the world is [...]
Our common bond here at the English Council is not only the English Language, which is getting abused and misused throughout the world but also the English culture, which is constantly being diluted and polluted and England it’s self which is under attack from both within and without, with the likes of Prescot, denouncing its [...]
Are you English or British? That is the question.
Let me play devil’s advocate to stir you all up.
What does it mean to be British? Well when you think about it seriously it means nothing. Nothing except you have managed to get a British passport. You could be any old Tom, Dick or Patel for all [...]
English
The World Language
Part of our TESOL on-line course.
The first significant step in the progress of English towards its status as a world language began through the voyages of English sailors at the end of the 18th century, notably the journeys of Captain Cook in the 1770s. At that time, the number of mother-tongue English [...]
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