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Can English be dethroned? Roland J.-L. Breton, geolinguist and emeritus professor at the University of Major languages other than English are spoken by over half the people on the planet. What can be done to give them more clout in international bodies? Back in 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson managed to have the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies, written in English as well as French. Since then, English has taken root in diplomacy and gradually in economic relations and the media. The language now seems set to have a monopoly as the world