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Which?English?? When?you?receive?a?phone?call?from?a?friend,?how long?does?it?take?you?to?know?who?it?is??A?few seconds,?perhaps.?The?quality?of?someone’s?voice and?their?choice?of?words?make?a?person?instantly?recognisable,?even?though?you?can’t?see?him?or?her.?In?this?sense?everybodys?use?of??language?－?whether?English,?Chinese,?or?any?other－is?different.?You?could?say?that?there?are?as?many?varieties?of??English,?or?any?other?language?for?that?matter,?as?there?are?speakers?of?it.? English?is?spoken?as?an?official?language?in?more?than?60?countries?across?the?world?and?it?can?sound?very?diff