What’s the future of English?

Linguistics expert David Crystal is in Russia to give a series of lectures. At the UK-Russia Linguistic Symposium Opens in a new tab or window. at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, he described ‘the future of Englishes’ and the evolution of global varieties of English across the world. Keira Ives-Keeler of the British Council in Russia explains.

Football vs Soccer

Depending on where you live, football and soccer can refer to completely different games. For example, in America football refers to American football whereas in the UK it refers to association football, which in America would be called soccer.

Countries Where The Capital Is Not The Largest City

The map above shows all countries whose capital was not their largest city, based on population, in 2010. This explains why South Sudan does not appear as a separate country, however if it did it would not be among the countries included (Juba is both the capital and...
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