Comment by adriancr

Comment by adriancr 13 hours ago

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> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.

Retric 13 hours ago

~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

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switchbak 12 hours ago

Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?

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- Retric 12 hours ago
  
  shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.
  
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adriancr 13 hours ago

Source?

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- Retric 12 hours ago
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
  
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  adriancr 12 hours ago
  
  > aren’t native English speakers
  Where does it state this?
  Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?
  
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