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Nicholas Ostler: The Last Lingua Franca. English Until the Return of Babel

Penguin (Allen Lane), London, 2010, xx + 330pp, Hb £20, Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978-1-846-14215-4

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Phillipson, R. Nicholas Ostler: The Last Lingua Franca. English Until the Return of Babel. Lang Policy 11, 197–200 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-011-9206-7

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