| modern english, linglish, in [51=] Français: l'anglo-américain ⊕ progressive expansion from Great Britain, comprising: first English-speaking circumnavigation of globe in 16th cent.; permanent extension from 17th to Ireland (after decline of earlier Old Anglo-Irish), North America, the Caribbean and Africa, and from 18th to Asia and Australasia; televised globally from late 20th # the proposed form linglish, abbreviated from (globa)l english, has the advantage of stressing this language's role as a global "lingua franca" rather than as the language of a specific country ➤ treated as 23 inner-languages |