One group unlikely to do so are the natural speakers of the tongue from other continents. Unlike other parts of our national heritage, British English is a treasure we may sell again and again already the invisible earnings from this industry are substantial, and they are likely to grow as more and more foreigners wish at least to brush their lips across the Grande Dame's ring.

Indeed, thousands come to Britain to admire her venerable and famous monuments, preserved in the verbal museums of language schools. Rather quaint now, like all aristocrats left behind by a confusing modern world, she nonetheless has many points of historical interest. At the head of that clan is the grand old matriarch, British English. For the Angles and the Saxons it was a family of siblings today it is a vast clan in diaspora. It formed the title essay of a book called, with stunning originality, ' Glanglish.' This is what I wrote:Д®nglish has never existed as a unitary language. I won't be buying it, mostly because I wrote about the rise and use of a globalised English, dubbed 'Glanglish', over 20 years ago. As taught by NerriГЁreвЂ™s enterprise, it combines the coarseness of a distended phrase book and the formulaic optimism of self-help texts вЂ“ themselves a genre characterised by linguistic paucity, catchphrases and religiose simplicity. Globish is a privatised lingua franca, a commercially driven вЂњworld languageвЂќ unencumbered by the utopian programme of Esperanto. There's a new book out about the rise and use of a globalised English, dubbed ' Globish':

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