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Standard Canadian English is spoken by those who live in urban Canada, in a middle-class job (or one of their parents holds such employment), who are second generation or later (born and raised in Canada) and speak English as (one of their) dominant language(s) (Dollinger 2019a, adapted from Chambers 1998).
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Europe 33,000 No (Both English and Llanito are spoken on a daily basis as the primary languages) Guam [f] United States Oceania 173,000 Yes (co-official with Chamorro) Hong Kong [g] [2] China: Asia 7,097,600 No (but de jure and de facto co-official with Chinese [40]) Isle of Man [h] United Kingdom Europe 80,058 Yes Jersey [i] [2] United Kingdom ...
Today, almost all residents of Scotland speak English, although many speak various dialects of Scots which differ markedly from Scottish Standard English. Approximately 2% of the population use Scottish Gaelic as their language of everyday use, primarily in the northern and western regions of the country.
While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of Québécois can speak English. [16] Nationally, Francophones are five times more likely to speak English than Anglophones are to speak French – 44% and 9% respectively. [17] Only 3.2% of Canada's English-speaking population resides in Quebec—mostly in Montreal. [nb 5]
Michael Jackson first rose to fame in the early ‘70s as the pint-sized frontman of Motown’s Jackson 5. But Jackson became a bonafide superstar with his first solo album for Epic Records, Off ...
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For example, while a roughly equal number of Canadians have at least partial Ukrainian and Chinese ancestry, 82% of Ukrainian Canadians speak English as their sole mother tongue, and only 17% of Chinese Canadians do (though this rises to 34% in the 0 to 14 age group). [47]