Titlebook: English – One Tongue, Many Voices; Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech Book 2016Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0173-1At the end of the nineteenth century, on being asked to name the single greatest fact in modern political history, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck answered: ‘The inherent and permanent fact that North America speaks English.’

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The First 500 YearsWe cannot understand what a language is until we know its history. More than for most subjects, history is the key to language, because the very fabric of a language — its vocabulary, grammar, orthography and pronunciation — is a living record of its past.

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English TransplantedBy 1783 the 13 colonies in America were lost for Britain. The English language, however, was not thrown out with the English. And, as the British Empire expanded, English spread to other continents: Australasia, Africa and Asia.

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