【正文】 s to promote the language.Some months ago there was a hue and cry in Singapore over the spread of “terrible English” which the authorities called “Singlish”.“Down with it!” they said，and urged Singaporeans to learn correct English，the phenomenal flexibility of which has often made things difficult for those who have to use it every day.Today even university graduates find it hard to pen a couple of correct sentences in horrifying is that many teachers and university vicechancellors speak and write poor and ungrammatical ，they are found to be out of touch with what is called “usage” and，as we all know，this is one of the pillars the language rests on.Yet，despite the mess that English is in India，the nation has—more than two centuries after Samuel Johnson wrote his English dictionary—bee the hottest destination for top lexicographers.The new 10th revised edition of the Oxford Concise English Dictionary includes hundreds of Indian the list of 600 Indian English entries are “Hindutva” （Hindu identity），“dada” （older brother），“panchayat” （local administration），“chai” （tea），“pani” （water），“puri” （a dish made of wheat） and “dosa” （rice pancake）.In fact，Indian words from 20 per cent of entries and rank as the thirdlargest ponent after American and Australian English former British colonies such as New Zealand，South Africa and the Caribbean islands follow the Indian English collection of words.English，despite its hiccups，is endearing to the mon Indian man or 150 years after Lord Macaulay introduced the language in India to create “babus” （clerks） for the British bureaucracy，70 million Indians speak English，a number that is higher than that in Britain.However，there is a sneaking fear among Puritans that with this kind of spread，English may stop being the French have fanatically preserved the purity of their language，the English have liberally allowed other influences to affect their ，what is seen as its strength—the fact that people all over the world understand it—can be an undermining obstacle.There might be a serious problem if every state or continent were to have its own version of one writer said：“There is a risk in relentless atomization.” With too many variations of the language，a time may e when one group of Englishspeaking people may not be able to understand is the way Singaporeans speak to the Australians pronouncing “e”；it sounds like “a”.A few of the films made lately by British directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh had to have subtitles in in the north of Britain can be hard for people in the south to understand，let alone those outside the island.The point is，no language must be allowed such flexibility—anything goes in the name of functional munication—that people begin to take liberties with ，there may be no such thing as wrong schoolboy in the Times cartoon was doing just knew nobody would scold him for getting his English wrong.不久以后就沒有“錯誤的”英語這一說了英語成了自身成功的犧牲品，前幾天，倫敦的《泰晤士報》刊登了一幅漫畫，上面畫了一個興高采烈的男學(xué)生炫耀他的考試成績：“I done good in English”（我的英語成績不錯）。 不幸的是， 這種征服不總是受到歡迎，因為一種語言有時會被兼作政治武器。在眾多國家，比如中國和日本，一直在大力推廣英語的使用。約翰遜編寫了他的英語字典兩個多世紀(jì)以后， 這個國家已經(jīng)成為頂級詞典編纂者們最熱門的詞匯來源地。與法國人狂熱地保護法語純潔性的做法不同，英國人很大方地接受了外界對其影響。最近由英國導(dǎo)演肯183