Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum | Books | guardian.co.uk

Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum | Books | guardian.co.uk: "So here's the sales pitch. Globish is not about the making of a 1500-word vocabulary, but about the way in which Indians, Chinese and many Africans are now turning to English as a liberating and modernising phenomenon (last year, the government of francophone Rwanda not only applied to join the British Commonwealth but also declared English to be the official language of the country)."