XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 19:11:35 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:   
      
   > The US has three times as many native speakers of English than the   
   > entire rest of the world combined, including the entire British   
   > Commonwealth.   
      
   But they’re almost all concentrated in one place.   
      
   This is like the issue with Mandarin, which has more speakers than   
   English, but they are largely confined to one country.   
      
   British English (and its offshoots) remain the most widely spoken   
   language, not purely by numbers, but by sheer distribution.   
      
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