A good European, Nerriere describes Globish as a device that will 'limit the influence of the English language dramatically'. He says: 'I am helping the rescue of French, and of all the languages ...

Having neatly made the transition from the Queen's English to the more democratic American version, it is now becoming a worldwide power, a populist tool increasingly known as Globish. The rise of ...

But as the language spreads, it is dramatically changing as well; so much so that one British author believes the evolving speech deserves a new name - "Globish." Robert McCrum says this new form ...

This led him to develop Globish, a language of 1,500 English words that he judged perfectly sufficient for international business. Globish speakers avoid all figurative language and never tell jokes.

Today he's painting on a much larger canvas, the big picture of how—sometime last century—the English language stopped being English, in this his review of Robert McCrum's book Globish ...

Les mœurs évoluent, les langues également. Le globish, contraction des termes « global » et « english », désigne un anglais simplifié, qui serait composé de seulement 1 500 mots.

McCrum takes the term Globish from Jean-Paul Nerriere, who coined the word in 1995 and has written books on the blunt new form of English that uses about 1,500 words, employs short sentences with ...