❖ English is extremely flexible , allowing the language to borrow words from other languages and to evolve. Webster's Third New International Dictionary, (475,000 main headwords
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De facto world language
❖ a large number of speakers,a substantial fraction of nonnative speakers . widely taught as a foreign language
❖ Economic and political reason
❖ History reason
❖ Language itself ❖ the linguistic community is not defined along ethnic lines种
族界限 ❖ official status in several countries
❖ cultural influence use in the academic community and significant body of literature
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❖ due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries ,
❖ United Kingdom are the largest colonial powers in modern times, the colony had been all over the world.