14 April

One of the beauties of English is that it has a vast vocabulary. There are probably more words in the English language than in many other languages combined. It’s the universal language, it’s picked up words from other languages in its imperial travels over time. To me this is interesting because it makes a lie of the idea that ‘globalisation’ and scale are homogenising things. Scale is what allows differences to flourish. But we’re very passionate in believing the ‘local’ is always more authentic and more variable than the global.