The Living Language: A Journey Through the Story of English
Every second in the whole world, a conversation begins in English. A pilot in Qatar speaks to air traffic control in London; a student in Nairobi reads a science paper published in Boston; a child in Seoul hums an English pop song learned from YouTube. English is not merely a language—it is the connective tissue of global communication. Once confined to a small island in the North Atlantic, it has grown into what the linguist David Crystal called “the world’s first truly global language.”