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Ahead of his time, the Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan predicted that electronically connected media would eventually transform the world into a huge ‘global village’. English has become the working tongue of that village.
English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
Salman Rushdie, The Times, 3 July 1982
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Svartvik, J., Leech, G. (2006). English — the Working Tongue of the Global Village. In: English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596160_1
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