More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, …

Bill Bryson
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. ✨ Bill Bryson (2015). The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way, p.11, HarperCollins
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. ✨ Bill Bryson (2015). The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way, p.11, HarperCollins

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