There is no hiding the fact that today in the world there are more non-native speakers of English than there are native speakers. To give an estimate of users of English in the world today, David ...

According to Ethnologue (2020), English is currently spoken by as many as 1.268 billion people as either a first or a second language and thus ranks first among the most widely spoken languages of the ...

Bermudian sociolinguist Dr Rosemary Hall will be taking part in a webinar on ‘Language prejudice and the documentation of minoritized varieties of English’ on January 20th. Dr Hall played a key role ...

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The progressive aspect, traditionally employed to indicate ongoing or unfolding actions, has evolved significantly across the anglophone world. Originally confined to dynamic verb contexts, its ...

Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its January 2020 update included 29 Nigerian English words. The reception, in both the traditional and new media ...

There is no hiding the fact that today in the world there are more non-native speakers of English than there are native speakers. To give an estimate of users of English in the world today, David ...