It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
I will devote the rest of my life to God’s plan and help to make the rest of the world English.
New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc.
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
