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Improve Your English: The Essential Guide to English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
The supremacy of English as a world language is a relic of the age when Great Britain was an important world power. The inhabitants of the huge chunks of territory which in old atlases were coloured pink enjoyed the benefits of learning English from explorers, travellers, missionaries and settlers. It is rather remarkable that today, despite minor idiomatic and spelling differences,
American custom, an infinity of verbal differences, and diverse political constitutions, there is general consistency in written English throughout the world.
Speech, of course, is far, far older than writing, and the development of the written language from the spoken in different parts of the world is an absorbing subject. The symbols of language, formed to represent objects, actions or syllables of speech, developed, in time, into characters which could be combined to form words. The first language to be written was Sumerian, which
began as simple pictures and which can be traced as far back as 3100 BC.
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