He stands back and witnesses with awe the language’s myriad offshoots, like Manglish (Malay and English) and Konglish (English in South Korea).

Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.

Well, you see, I was temporarily in command of the cruiser coming down the Baltic, and passing an island rock a few miles away, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test a new gun that had been put aboard when we left England.

He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia. Darling, it is cold, Ariah meeped, and put her mitten on his.