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By 1783 the thirteen colonies in America were lost for Britain. The English language, however, was not thrown out with the English. And, as the British Empire expanded, English spread to other continents: Australasia, Africa and Asia.
And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T’enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th’ yet unformed Occident May come refined with th’ accents that are ours?
Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599)
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Svartvik, J., Leech, G. (2006). English Transplanted. In: English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596160_6
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