Globish: How the English Language became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
Are you often found bemoaning the state of the English language? Well perhaps Robert McCrum can get you to see the brighter side of our constantly evolving, multinational, lingua franca. Globish first charts the history of English with its propensity for growth; constantly absorbing foreign words while simultaneously coining new ones. As the title suggests, McCrum then goes on to discuss the globalisation of English, initially through colonialism and then more recently through the revolution of the internet. But as we all know the English Language that might eventually become the World’s language will certainly not be the Queen’s own. It will be ‘Englasian’ or ‘Panglish’ maybe even ‘Manglish’…
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