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World English, Euro-English, Nordic English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2003

Tom McArthur
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A discussion of the kinds of English emerging in the world at large and in the European Union. In recent years, the world's Anglophone media, in the company of a range of other observers, have routinely been calling English ‘the world's lingua franca’. As a result, the phrase is now something of a cliché. We're all ‘global’ now, and need to use the first truly universal language, whether we are business people, politicians, teachers, tourists, or terrorists.

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English Today , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 54 - 58
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press