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Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue, only surpassed in numbers, but not in distribution by speakers of the many varieties of Chinese. Over 700 million people speak English as a foreign language. Did you know that of all the world's languages (over 2,700),
English is arguably the richest in vocabulary and that the Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words, and there are a half-million technical and scientific terms still uncataloguedThree-quarters of the world's mail, telexes, and cables are in English.
More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals are in English. English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world's computers.
English is the language of navigation and aviation.
Five of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, and CBC) transmit in English, reaching millions and millions of people all over the world.
