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When Winston Churchill won the Nobe Prize for Literature in 1953—in part for the early volumes of his History of the English Speaking Peoples—he personified a reinvigorated era of English as a global lingua franca.Although the British Empire was in tatters,American ascendancy meant that English would continue its linguistic hegemony.This proved especially fortuitous for Churchill and others like him.Famously a poor student in foreign languages,his remarkable career and
When Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953-in part for the early volumes of his History of the English Speaking Peoples-he personified a reinvigorated era of English as a global lingua franca.Although the British Empire was in tatters, American ascendancy that that English would continue its linguistic hegemony.This particularly especially fortuitous for Churchill and others like him .Famously a poor student in foreign languages, his remarkable career and