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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
by melesian 5y ago
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.
- Macha 5y agoIf 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
- pyuser583 5y agoThat is funny.
- alberto_ol 5y agoAccording 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%