This chart shows different countries' score on the EF English Proficiency Index 2023. Statista. Western and Northern European nations won out the category of very high proficiency last year, with ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most skilled spellers will admit that English is a mess.

This is because many printers did not use a standard dialect of English when printing. They typically used different spelling and punctuation, and many printers were not native speakers of English, ...

Percentage of English-Speaking Population: 97.64%. English is the official language of Jamaica and is used in various sectors such as business, government, media, and education.

The question is whether we’ll proceed until the end of time making do with a woefully goofy spelling system when English is, for better or for worse, the world’s closest thing to a universal ...

As Gabe Henry notes in “Enough Is Enuf,” a history of the largely futile efforts to overhaul English spelling, Webster wasn’t motivated by nationalism alone.