Global English

English was first spoken in England. Around Queen Elisabeth’s time, it was 6 million people in that spoke English, and all of them lived in England of course.
Some of the British spoken countries are : England, USA, Canada, Australia and India.
The British Empire wanted the whole wide world to be ruled under them. So they started with colonies, over the whole America, Africa and Asia. India was also one of their colonies, and the Brit’s taught the Indians how to create a democracy. They also made the Indians to speak English, of course, how would they make the whole wide world to speak English, when you don’t teach them it.
English is used both as a mothers tongue, a second language and as a lingua franca. There are over 350 millions who speak English as a mothers tongue, and almost the same as a second language.
They used Ships to explore the world, the sea was the only way to get there.
The British government or the British tax-payers payed the explorers.
What they got out of the colonies, was jewellery, slaves and last but not least: land! Colonies were great status symbols for countries on that time to show they were great, more land, more respect.


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- The General