Letter: War of words
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Your support makes all the difference.I was surprised to note that Bangladesh was categorised as an "English is mother tongue" country within your "world by words" map ("The British Empire is dead: long live the English empire", 5 January). Bangla- desh interprets as the "country of the Bangla language". The bloody struggle to preserve Bangla in East Pakistan after the British ceded independence in 1947 spawned a new country in which the English language is rele- gated to anything but a mother tongue.
Richard Stevens
Hastings, East Sussex
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