More than a fifth of the world’s countries use English as an official or predominantly unofficial language. This is because Britain once had many colonies.
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Even because domestic English is easier than French, German, and especially Russian. They do not use these clever times in everyday speech; initially there are practically no falls, no slopes, no curves, but exceptions to the rules counted units. Write a search engine or "Eliza" in English (this is a program, a psychoanalytic imitation) - once spit. And a normal contextual search in Russian...Wow... how many years Yandex fought with him.