The English language is perhaps the most global because of its welcoming to words whose origins lie elsewhere. Perhaps this extraordinary adaptive ability, this porous and plastic quality, is the very reason it has attained its very global status, for instance, far surpassing the Latin tongues French/Spanish/Italian.
The preface to the King James Bible is itself an epitome of the English genius for assimilation and adaption:The English language 'removeth the cover on the well, so that we may come by the water.'
Source Peter Ackroyd Albion
The preface to the King James Bible is itself an epitome of the English genius for assimilation and adaption:The English language 'removeth the cover on the well, so that we may come by the water.'
Source Peter Ackroyd Albion
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