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| (...) Populations, in thousands: UK 58,649 Australia 18,520 New Zealand 3,796 Canada 30,563 ------- 111,528 US 274,028 ------- 274,028 (Figures from "(URL) -Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't think I need to comment (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I really don't want to get involved in this rather quirky debate, but there are 982,223 thousand people in India (same source), the majority of whom speak English in the UK style in addition to their own regional dialects. I've always wondered how (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Hang on The population of the world is ~ 4 Billion (uh,oh there's another argument looming), No matter how you define billion your figures fall way short, Sure not all (most) of the world is english speaking (but we have already had anecdotal (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| We (Canadians) are with the Ugly Americans on this one... sorry we don't count in the UK-world total. 5 billion = 5 000 000 000 in the Great White North. LINC (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) India? China? We're not just talking _first_ language here... Jasper (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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