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Half the Answer
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/
List of languages by total number of speakers | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
List of countries by English-speaking population | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
[PDF] Gooskens, Charlotte; van Heuven, Vincent: Mutual Intelligibility
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/178803929/mutual_intelligibility.pdf
Be merry | Historical Thesaurus of English
https://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?type=search&qsearch=merry&word=merry&label=&category=&oef=&oel=&startf=&startl=&endf=&endl=¤tf=¤tl=&year=&twoEdNew=&twoEdUpdated=&page=1#id=128913
[PDF] Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson: Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_64421/component/file_2225570/content
Anna Wierzbicka: Talking to Other People: “Politeness” and Cultural Scripts | Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language
https://academic.oup.com/book/26701/chapter-abstract/195507283?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates
Episode 606: Spreadsheets! : Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/17/528807590/episode-606-spreadsheets
Mason 67 | Know Your Meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mason-67
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