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"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

Added this standard. Listening to Play It Cool by Münchener Freiheit. Has that infectious pop hook. See how to play it. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/munchener-freiheit-play-it-cool

#guitarstar #guitaridol #german #malevocalist #englishlanguage #80s #synth

Added this standard. Listening to Play It Cool by Münchener Freiheit. Has that infectious pop hook. See how to play it. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/munchener-freiheit-play-it-cool

#guitarstar #guitaridol #german #malevocalist #englishlanguage #80s #synth

"Bad Boy" is a song by the American band #MiamiSoundMachine, led by Cuban-American singer #GloriaEstefan, and released as the second single from their second #EnglishLanguage album, and ninth overall, #PrimitiveLove (1985). The song enjoyed much success following up on the band's mainstream breakthrough single, "Conga". It also was featured in and opened the film #ThreeMenAndABaby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXCyxkrSko

"Words Get in the Way" is a song written by #GloriaEstefan and released as the third single from her band, #MiamiSoundMachine, on their second #EnglishLanguage album, and ninth overall, #PrimitiveLove. The song is a #ballad and became the highest-charting song from the album in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcC5i1d9UI

TIL: Flirt comes from (conter) fleurette. The word ended up being reimported in French. #englishlanguage #frenchlanguage #éthymologie

"Bad Boy" is a song by the American band #MiamiSoundMachine, led by Cuban-American singer #GloriaEstefan, and released as the second single from their second #EnglishLanguage album, and ninth overall, #PrimitiveLove (1985). The song enjoyed much success following up on the band's mainstream breakthrough single, "#Conga". It also was featured in and opened the film #ThreeMenAndABaby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TfKHKbNys

People on LinkedIn are inventing nonsense business idioms, and they're too good not to use

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/made-up-business-idioms

Brush up on your knowledge of contemporary English with my retrospective of the Words of the Year (WOTY) 2025, selected by leading lexicographers:

https://grammaticus.blog/2026/01/06/english-words-of-the-year-2025/

#englishlanguage #englishvocabulary #englishteacher #woty #WOTY2025

I saw a post with a map of countries where >90% of the population speaks English. Scandinavia was included, but Canada wasn't. Claiming that Canada has <90% English speakers is interesting, and not entirely trivial to confirm or deny from official sources.

I looked up Statistics Canada, data from 2021. They don't say outright how many speak English, and they switch measurements between "mother tongue" and "first official language". But the bounds for English speakers seem to be 76.1% – 88.4%, so the post was correct about Canada. Calculations below.

canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage…

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76.1% speak English as their "first official language" (27 881 228 people)
22.0% speak French as FOL (8 066 633, of which 7 074 328 in Quebec)
18.0% speak both, but could be from either of the two above
1.8% speak neither

Upper bound for English so far is 94.1%, lower bound is 76.1%.

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42.8% of Quebec native French speakers ("mother tongue") speak English
85.0% of other native French speakers speak English

We don't know how many speak English of those 1.8% who have French as FOL (22.0%) but not as mother tongue (20.2%).

The upper bound for Quebec native French speakers is the 7 074 328 people with French as "first official language".
For non-Quebec it's 8066633 - 7074328 = 992305.
The subtotal upper bound for the number of English speakers is 42.8% * 7074328 + 85.0% * 992395 + 27881228 = 31752499.
The total population is 27881228 / 76.1% = 36637618.
The subtotal upper bound percentage of English speakers is 31752499 / 36637618 =
86.6%.

And then we add those 1.8% with French FOL who may or may not all be speaking English, making it 88.4%.

#canada #quebec #EnglishCanada #FrenchCanada
#english #EnglishLanguage

Has the meaning of the term "underrated" changed while I was not paying attention? I see it used in more and more ridiculous ways, but this one has to be the worst:

"The Wildly Underrated Michelin 3-Star Park You MUST Visit!"

It's been rated 3-star! That's the maximum possible. How is this underrated? Not to mention "wildly underrated."

I just can't with people's stupidity anymore.

#English #EnglishLanguage #Underrated

It’s something of a tradition on my Grammaticus blog to start the New Year with a lexicographical recap of the previous year. If you’ve missed it in the news, here’s an overview of the words that marked the year 2024, chosen by the leading dictionary publishers from the English-speaking world.

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/01/08/english-words-of-the-year-2024/

#WOTY #englishvocabulary #englishlanguage #words #learningenglish #englishteacher #dictionary

It's time for the annual #WOTY post!

Click on the link below and learn about the words of the year 2023:
https://grammaticus.blog/2024/01/03/english-words-of-the-year-2023/

#EnglishVocabulary #EnglishLanguage #LearningEnglish #EnglishTeacher