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The rise of English is a story of wonderful success. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly 2000 years ago, English did not exist.
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English was spoken by the people who inhabited Great Britain, but they were not many and their English was not the language we know today.
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By the time when W.Shakespeare created his works, English was the native language of about 6 million Englishmen.
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English has become an international language. More than half of world's scientific periodicals and 80% of the information in the world's computers are in English.