Here’s something that Britain is good at: English. I’m not talking about oratory, novels or even Shakespeare. I’m referring to English as the world’s dominant lingua franca. In achieving this role, it has become ‘an economic skill, a marketable commodity and a form of cultural capital’.
That is the view of Rosemary Salomone, whose recent book, , explores the many uses of a once-minor European tongue as it spreads across the world. Roughly
