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lingua globa, how english became ‘globish’  How did a mongrel tongue born on a small island in the north Atlantic become the globally dominant language now known as English?  That’s a question Robert McCrum tries to answer in his new book, Globish, which explores the way English took the world by storm over the course of several centuries. It’s a story that begins back in the first millennium, when the language spoken in England wasn’t even called “English.”  five minutes of listening pleasure from npr.