I'm pretty sure the reason English is hard to dethrone is because Britain ~helped~ forced the various colonies to join world commerce using English, so they sta

I'm pretty sure the reason English is hard to dethrone is because Britain ~helped~ forced the various colonies to join world commerce using English, so they started teaching it to entire generations as the national second-language, and then because the USA dominated world commerce after that in a sort of "we'll let you in on the game if you speak our language and use our money" sort of way.