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A form of English heavily influenced by migrants in London is likely to become the dominant dialect of the language in the UK within 100 years, experts are claiming.

The British University of Chester has placed a trigger warning on J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

English Morris Dancers have cancelled their traditional face paint opting for a non-black colour over allegations of racism.

Anti-hunting protestors have clashed with hunt supporters at a Boxing Day meet in the village of Lacock in Wiltshire.

A landmark report revealed an “outsized” number of elementary teacher candidates is failing state licensure tests, particularly in the primary areas of English, math, science, and social studies.

The federal goverment announced changes to the U.S. citizenship test and one immigration activist group is critical of the changes.

Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said at a recent campaign stop that English should not be the official language of the United States, even though she voted for a pro-English language bill during her time in the Senate.

Air Canada has parted with tradition by dropping “ladies and gentlemen” or the French “mesdames et messieurs” when greeting passengers aboard its aircraft, in a major change to the carrier’s protocols.

A group of Chinese scholars has suggested that many contemporary Western languages, including English, were derived from Mandarin Chinese. According to their research, the French, German, and Russian languages were also strongly influenced by Chinese culture.

Under a regulation set to be enforced by the Trump administration, self-sufficient immigrants who are proficient in English will be favored for green cards to permanently remain in the United States over those who are non-English speakers and reliant on welfare. 

Appearing Sunday on MSNBC with Kasie Hunt, 2020 White House hopeful and Obama-era Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said he can’t speak Spanish fluently due to his family feeling internalized “oppression” to ensure he spoke English.

The vast majority of illegal aliens and a sizeable portion of legal immigrants living in the United States are not proficient in the English language, a survey finds.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro seemingly failed to capture the moment when threatening President Donald Trump on Tuesday in English, prompting laughter even from his most loyal socialist supporters. 

A “horrific escalation of violence” fueled by clashes between security forces and separatist groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has led to the death of 400 “ordinary people” already this year, the human rights group Amnesty International reported this week.

Taiwan will make English an official language beginning next year in an attempt to help citizens pursue opportunities abroad, Premier William Lai announced this week.

Contents: Viral video shows Francophone Cameroon soldiers killing women and children; Cameroon continues on path to full-scale civil war

TEL AVIV – A toddler from an Arabic-speaking Druze family in Israel’s north has been getting exposure on viral posts for his inexplicable ability to speak fluent English with a British accent, despite the fact that he’s never heard the language and his parents don’t speak a word of it. 

Twenty-two people were killed on Friday in the Anglophone (English-speaking) region of Cameroon by army and security forces from the Francophone (French-speaking) government of 85-year-old president Paul Biya, who has been in power for more than 35 years.

Executive Director of the English language advocacy group ProEnglish Stephen Guschov says his organization has “had five meetings at the White House in recent weeks and months” urging President Donald Trump to repeal Bill Clinton’s Executive Order 13166, which sought to accommodate “persons with limited English proficiency.”

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) pushed amnesty for illegal aliens while speaking in Spanish in his Democrat response to President Trump’s “State of the Union” address.

The Iranian regime’s High Council of Education has declared English will no longer be taught in either public or private primary schools, in order to combat a “cultural invasion” from the Western world.

Nearly 25 percent of illegal aliens eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are “functionally illiterate” in the English language, a researcher says.

An economist at the University of Maryland says President Trump’s recently released list of immigration priorities “would foster” a “less-divided America.”

In 2012, researchers at the Nigerian Ahmadu Bello University studied the importance of a common language on a nation. The study ultimately concluded that a national language brings national unity, while also serving as an equalizer for a nation’s differing groups.

A lot of immigrants from all around the world speak English. But CNN’s Acosta thinks that this is something only Brits and Aussies can do.

English patriotism is on the rise, with increasing numbers of people identifying as solely English rather than British, a survey has found.

Although one of President Bill Clinton’s last “accomplishments” on the cusp of leaving office 16 years ago was rallying the international community to establish “International Migrants Day,” Brexit and election of Donald Trump mark the beginning of a new nationalism.

A school district in Buffalo, New York offers services in 85 different languages for immigrants and refugees who enroll in school.

Professors at the University of New Hampshire are calling for two Trump-supporting students to be expelled for counter-protesting an anti-Trump rally dressed as Richard Nixon and Harambe.

President Barack Obama thinks that more Americans should learn foreign languages, rather than rely on English being the biggest language in the world.

Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has  been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.

David Cameron’s announcement that Muslim women should make sure their English improves, or otherwise risk their right to stay in Britain, had all his now familiar hallmarks: clumsy, disingenuous, riddled with unverifiable assumptions, and ripped apart within 24 hours. The

A man accused of sexually assaulting a child and an armed burglar are using claims of not speaking English to delay their trials in a Texas court.

The Obama administration is encouraging the 8.8 million eligible lawful permanent residents to become U.S. citizen with efforts aimed at raising awareness about the process and pressing more immigrants to naturalize. The citizenship agency released two versions of a video: one in English and one in Spanish.

It’s been fewer than two days since the Oldham by-election, and as you might have read, UK Independence Party (UKIP) sources have had their say about the result, and the increasingly discomforting demographics of a seat like Oldham West and