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I doubt it's as low as that!

Malta and the Netherlands are other countries where a large majority also speak English.

In some places in the EU the UK's union jack flag is being replaced with the Irish tricolour on bank ATM's display of language choices, which amuses the Irish.




If you consider the alternative to be monolingual Irish speakers, for sure they're way less than 1%, but I imagine if you group them with monolingual Polish/Portugese/Chinese speakers, you might get up to a whole percent


According to the wikipedia page linked above republic of ireland: total english speakers 98.37% as first languge 93.22%

For the UK the figures are: total speakers 98.3% as first language 92.3%


That is funny.




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