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This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. Setting out to be accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, it covers a range of dialects and languages, including UK dialects, Spanglish, Jamaican Creole, Yinglish, Blue-eyed English, Chicano English, Maori English, and Bearer English. This book is intended for general readers, especially those interested in dialects and the history of world English; students of A-level English Language in the UK and first-year undergraduates internationally; academics concerned with international English; advanced foreign learners interested in developing an awareness of the differences in English around the world.

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Tom McArthur is the editor of the quarterly journal English Today: The International Review of the English Language. He has published 15 books on aspects of language, including the general editorship of The Oxford Companion to the English Language, and has taught at the Universities of Bombay, Edinburgh, Exeter, and Quebec.

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