WHY THE WORLD SPEAKS ENGLISH

Nobody voted for English. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British Empire

flooded the map with red, planting the language through trade, law,

and administration. But then the old empires fell... and the United States took over

with the sheer industrial might of Manhattan and Wall Street. After the war,

the U.S. rebuilt the modern world — and they did it entirely in English.

Hollywood, computers, the internet. English became the essential code for

business, science, and every new technology. Australia anchored the

language in the Pacific, spreading it across vast lands and rising cities without