Re: What's MEXT in English?

jim_breen_at_idontreadhotmail.com
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: 16 Aug 2004 22:38:45 GMT

Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> dixit:

>I think that many Indians would bristle at you not thinking of them as
>native speakers of English. It's an unusual dialect to our ears, but
>there are probably more speakers of Indian English than British.

On that latter point, the Brits are still well ahead. There's a
bit of an argument as to which country has the third-most English
speakers (after the US and UK). The contenders are India and the
Phillipines. Canada come in fifth. 

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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