The use of English around the world gives London an edge over other European centres.
On March 5, after they had spent the day in the talks known as the General Congregation, a group of them from around the English-speaking world gathered inside North American College, a school nestled on a hill above the Vatican, where U.S. bishops send seminarians to train for the priesthood.
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.
Each year Oscar organisers try to identify the best movie around the world not in the English language.
We will hear from correspondents around the world about the non-English languages they work in on a daily basis.
By the time the summer tournaments roll around, like the World Cup or European Championship, English players are exhausted and underperform.
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During this period Hendricks Sr. took the African Queen around the world, gracing flotillas that marked the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dunkirk in the English Channel and the Queen Mother's 90th birthday on the River Thames.
So how come English, or indeed Britishness because this is not only about England, is selling around the world?
This global influence combined with our stubborn insistence on communicating in English has finished the work begun by Great Britain, elevating our language to primacy around the world.
Whether the world's more than 1.5 billion English speakers will one day wrap their tongues around Eyjafjallajokull is an open question, he said.
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