Mercury- the element.? what family does it belong to? origin of the name? cost? discovered by? when? any interesting facts??? need info now for report!!! thanx!!!
Yet even in its spoken form, English is weird. Itâs weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet.
Answer Wiki. , Wordsmith & occasional lecturer on media writing skills. English is no more inherently ''special'' than any of our planet's other widely-spoken languages. The fact that it is spoken so widely throughout the world is far more the result of historical circumstanceâin which chance and good fortune have played an important part. To appreciate this fully, it's worth reading one or more of the books listed at the end of this answer. English is not a ''pure'' language.