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David Crystal - Is control of English shifting away from British and American native speakers?

There are approximately 400 million native English speakers and around 1.5 billion non-native speakers worldwide. The way non-native speakers use the language will inevitably impact its evolution over time through mutual influence and accommodation. For example, certain features like making uncountable nouns countable have started to infiltrate into mother tongue English due to the process of learning English as a foreign language. These changes may become more prevalent on the internet where anonymity allows for diverse interactions between native and non-native speakers.