All in all, in the last couple of hundred years (which so eerily coincides with the rise and fall of the British Empire and its tading tentacles around the globe), English has become the lingua france of the Planet, just like the Latin was for the ancient world of Mediterranean.

But how did it all start, you may ask. If you don’t mind us saying so, this has all started with the French.

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