The English Language

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 94, 19 January 1886, Page 3

The English Language

i Thelahguage of 'Sb-akespeare, which in his day was- not considered good enouglufor- works on, learned, important subjects,- jseems distinedto become - "iho universal language. It is already spoken] :|n( all quarters' of the globe and by more than a hundred millions' of peopled ,In Shakeapearets itirne English was spoken by only about fifteen millions;- German by thirty-five to forty millipjis, and French, by thirty milfions. English is now the language of as rfnany people as speak; these ' other languages. :In 300 years the, German-jspeaking^ people . have inc'reaSd'fidni,;^; forty to abbui sixiy millions,' 1 tne ; French from to forty. The .United States lias had the largest share in the spread of the English-speaking" tongue. There are prbb&brjp as ;many people in that •.country who speak English as in all the rest of the world.

A letter has been received from the Inspector of the Wellington Woollen Company's machinery in England, in which i that gentleman says x — " The whole of the | jmacb jriery/examlned by xne is of first-class quality and workmanship. It is the very best machinery that can be got in Euj;* land, «itk all the- 'newest inijJrovments and patents, and I .feel confident that the Welling ; tbn : Company win be highly satisfied when it is erected." — Post -•■ :»;■'••;..■■■; !'■-•■■ - ■•' -"• Continuation of reading matter on 4>thpage