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Britain's Greatest Gift to India?

on BBC Radio 3

by John Morris
Although the gift of the English tongue is in some danger, it is still the lingua franca for about eight million people. The reissue of an Anglo-Indian glossary, first published eighty years ago, prompts John Morris to consider the long two-way traffic between English and the Indian languages.
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John Morris

BBC Radio 3

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