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lmm
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Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries
Football is what the English, who have the best claim to being native speakers of English, call it.
vacri
on Nov 10, 2012
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A native speaker is someone who grew up with the given language as a primary language, not someone who comes from the country the language is named after.
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