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The English Language: FAQStories about the words we use. Why does English have the biggest vocabulary? Who decides ‘correct usage’? What is an irregular verb? Why are so few used so often? How many words and phrases come from Latin? Shakespeare? French? Dickens? The Bible? What is ‘Globish’?
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Stories about the words we use. Why does English have the biggest vocabulary? Who decides ‘correct usage’? What is an irregular verb? Why are so few used so often? How many words and phrases come from Latin? Shakespeare? French? Dickens? The Bible? What is ‘Globish’?
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Kieran McGovern
Author of Love by Design (Macmillan) & adaptations including Washington Square (OUP). Write about growing up in a Irish family in west London, music, all sorts