Talk:English language in Europe

message: I tinkered with the opening paragraph so to emphasize the degree to which the UK and Ireland are English-speaking compared to Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus.  I think the sections on Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus are interesting and I like seeing them in this article, but I wanted to eliminate the impression that English is spoken on the streets of Valletta or Nicosia to the same degree that its spoken in London or Inverness.  I also added a few lines about the Crown Dependencies since they were named in the opening but were not added again. -- House of Scandal 01:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malta, Cyprus, etc. 

message: To be grammatically correct, shouldn't this be entitled "English-speaking Europe".  "English speaking Europe" means "English people speaking a language called Europe".  Deb 11:51, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right - it should be moved to English-speaking Europe. --Nought 12:11, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

message: The Ireland section badly needs revision. No citiations are given for the assertions made and the section most certainly does not have a neutral POV.  95.83.238.39 (talk) 14:24, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ireland is not United Kingdom. The map should be replaced by one that matches the article title, English in Europe (not English in the EU). Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 20:11, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ireland 

message: The term "English-speaking Europe" is not a common one, and is subject to various interpretations as seen abov e. It could also include the increasing use of English all over Europe.
Much of this article consists of non-linguistic history which is covered better in other articles and doesn't need to be duplicated.
Even the linguistic discussion lacks detail and statistics. For example, the greatest retreat of Irish and Welsh in the face of English was during the 19th century, but you would not know this, or its relation to the Industrial Revolution, from this article.
This article lacks many aspects. It counts Cyprus a part of english-speaking europe, but is not longer official language there nor more english-speaking than e.g. the Netherlands. I think the people in the Netherlands and Northern Europe are more capable in English than the Cypriots.
:Seconded. (85.211.174.31 16:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thirded. —Wiki Wikardo 06:33, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose? 

message: How about the "Cross of St George" (rather than the Union Flag) to denote the English language?  Doesn't it annoy you to see the USA flag on guide books/websites etc to denote "English", you'd think they'd invented the language or something! -- Annonymous
Is there no flag (other than the Union Jack) for the English language.--Alan Frize 11:45, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See also commons:Category:Flags of languages. Edward 20:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Union Jack or...?

message: The paragraph adapted from Geoffrey Hull's The Malta language question: a case history in cultural imperialism is highly POV - The British tried vainly to usurp the Italian language from the Maltese. I know Hull's writings from his work with Tetum and other languages in East Timor, but the paragraph was far too nationalistic, getting into what the British should and shouldn't have done. Quiensabe 19:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malta POV 

message: Hello, I am an italian living in spain and I can assure you that it is pretty difficult for me to agree that 20%-29% of spanish and italian population could speak english...I don't know how much reliable may be these surveys.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.179.120.4 (talk) 10:44, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Remember that many old people can't speak english, and Italy has a high rate of old people, if I'm not mistaking. Not saying that you are wrong; would just like to point this out. 82.211.210.29 (talk) 03:46, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

text: I'd like to add that the numbers for Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany and France seem very reasonable to me, from what I have experienced in those countries. I'm Norwegian myself, where the knowledge of English probably is like in Sweden, ie. very good. Sometimes I feel that the whole Norwegian language is slowly turning into English. Young people tend to use a lot of English words and terms when they talk. My younger sister told me the kids at her school call the H1N1 virus "swine flu", with the English pronunciation, rather than the Norwegian equivalent "svineinfluensa". Looking through my Facebook news feed, a fair share of wall posts and comments (especially short ones) are in English, even between Norwegians. I have reasons to believe that the same thing is happening in several other European countries. 75.80.168.77 (talk) 06:54, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  English knowledge in Italy and Spain 

message: The title seems not to match the article. It seems to  be about English in the EU rather than Europe (which isn't all the EU). 121.73.7.84 (talk) 11:46, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true... The article even mentions the high percentage of a few countries outside the EU, but doesn't tell us what they are, so the contributors might have been somewhat aware. This needs to be changed.  99.242.122.19 (talk) 19:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  EU not Europe 

message: English also has an official status in The Netherlands, not only in the Caribbean municipalities of Sint Eustatius and Saba  but also in the European municipality of Amsterdam.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by PPP (talk • contribs) 16:04, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Netherlands 

message: This section of the article should address the problems that are arising from the use of English as lingua franca in EU institutions (i.e by many unsufficiently qualified speakers), as broached in the following article and paper: ,  --chris 論 08:46, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lingua Franca 

message: Does it use British English/British English OED? 124.106.137.149 (talk) 21:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Language of Commonwealth of Nations de facto? 

message: Article Isle of Man: "The official language of the Isle of Man is English." 
Article Manx language: "Manx is not officially recognised by any national or regional government" Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 01:15, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isle of Man: "English and Manx Gaelic are the two official languages"? Needs reputable source.