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。rsquo。s television and radio broadcasts are produced and delivered in English. Seventy percents of the worldamp。rsquo。s mail addressed in English. And it is the language of choice for almost every bite of puter data sent across the globe. But why English? There are no clear linguistic reasons for its suggested global dominance, certainly the grammar is plicated, the spelling peculiar and the pronunciation eccentric, to say the very least. One would need only look through the dictionary to find the vast list of amusing paradoxes in the English language。quicksand that works slowly, a boxing ring that is in fact square and a guinea pig thatamp。rsquo。s really neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Doesnamp。rsquo。t it seem odd that one can make amends but not one amend. Or go through the annals of history but not one annal. The reason, ladies and gentlemen, is simple. English is strange, but no where ne