Internationally, Cyprus promotes its geographical location as a " bridge " between East and West, along with its educated English-speaking population, moderate local costs, good airline connections, and telecommunications.

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

As a result, for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.

Americans from the South and other parts of the United States began to migrate to the area, marking the arrival of the first large English-speaking population and the introduction of the need for more general use of English.

Many Oaxacans speak indigenous languages not related to English or Spanish and as a result, find communication with the large Spanish-speaking and smaller English-speaking population difficult.

The islands are the location of some of Quebec's oldest English-speaking settlements, and although the majority of anglophones have since been assimilated with the francophone population or migrated elsewhere, there are still English-speaking settlements at Old Harry, Grosse-Ile, and Entry Island.

Due to heavy immigration, the population of English-speaking residents of Canada West soon outstripped Canada East.

Local residents are predominantly English-speaking Roman Catholics, the population core having Highland Scottish ancestry ; MacDonalds / MacDonnells mostly.

Their arrival marked the beginning of a predominantly English-speaking population in the future Canada west and east of the Quebec border.

In Australia, " Anglo ", " Anglo-Saxon " or " Anglo-Celtic " remains in popular use to refer to Australia's majority English-speaking white population with no inherent pejorative connotations.

* Even if Mexico had the military means to win the conflict with the U. S. and re-take the area in question, Mexico would have had severe difficulty accommodating and / or pacifying the large, well-armed, English-speaking population.

Pronounced " Lewisburg " by its largely English-speaking population, the present community has been identified by slightly different spellings over the years by both locals and visitors.

Oswestry has had a mixed Welsh-and English-speaking population for centuries.

Terms like mulatto for people of partly African descent and mestizo for people of partly Native American descent are still used by English-speaking people of the western hemisphere, but mostly when referring to the past or to the demography of Latin America and its diasporic population.

Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister, estimated that the total English-speaking population in China will outnumber the native speakers in the rest of the world in two decades.

Historically, the population had been composed mainly of Francophone ( Michif-speaking ) Métis, along with a minority of English-speaking mixed-race people known as the " country born " ( also as Anglo-Métis ), and a small number of Presbyterian Scottish settlers.

Members of the denomination tended to be of working class economic origins, as was the case with most Dutch people in the area, who were regarded as a source of cheap labor in the years before World War I by the longer-established, English-speaking population.

With the increasing population of English-speaking Muslims at the turn of the 20th century, three Muslim translations of the Qur ' an into English made their first appearance.

Arrival of the 1990s ushered in the phenomenon of an extensive English-speaking Muslim population well-settled in Western Europe and North America.

The modern game of tennis originated in the UK in the 1870s, and after its creation, tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population, before spreading around the world.

While the English-speaking population became the majority, the British-appointed governors still attempted to force the French Canadian population to assimilate.

In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

Initially the denomination grew in the English-speaking world, particularly in the English Midlands and parts of North America.

For example, the Unamended Fellowship exists only in North America, and some of the others are confined to the English-speaking world.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

The establishment of the first permanent English-speaking colony in North America in 1607 was a major step towards the globalisation of the language.

* 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

Burchfield also broadened the scope to include developments of the language in English-speaking regions beyond the United Kingdom, including North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean.

In Latin America and English-speaking countries, most wrestlers ( and other on-stage performers ) portray character roles, sometimes with personalities wildly different from their own.

In 1871 the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U. S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the ethnic working class in America.

The first outbreak in English-speaking North America occurred in New York in 1668.

In English-speaking North America, a " robin " is Turdus migratorius.

In North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the English-speaking world, some jurisdictions use specially trained nurses for medical transport work.

Belize is the only English-speaking country in Central America and the only one without a Pacific coastline.

In order to strengthen its potential for economic and political development Belize has sought to build closer ties with the Spanish-speaking countries of Central America to complement its historical ties to the English-speaking Caribbean states.

Outside of North America, English-speaking countries use the term cinema (), alternatively spelled and pronounced " kinema " ().

Though Chao is quite well known in Europe and Latin America, he has not had the same success in the English-speaking world.

Of these systems, the Roscher system was developed in Germany and implemented in both Germany and Japan, the Vucetich system ( developed by a Croatian-born Buenos Aires Police Officer ) was developed in Argentina and implemented throughout South America, and the Henry system was developed in India and implemented in most English-speaking countries.

Infectious mononucleosis ( IM ; also known as EBV infectious mononucleosis, Pfeiffer's disease, Filatov's disease, and sometimes colloquially as the kissing disease from its oral transmission or simply as mono in North America and as glandular fever in other English-speaking countries ) is an infectious, widespread viral disease caused by the Epstein – Barr virus ( EBV ), one type of herpes virus, to which more than 90 % of adults have been exposed.

The first popular recognition of the singer-songwriter in English-speaking North America and Great Britain occurred in the 1960s and early 1970s when a series of blues, folk and country-influenced musicians rose to prominence and popularity.

In North America, the term watershed is commonly used to mean a drainage basin ( though in other English-speaking countries, it is used only in its original sense, to mean a drainage divide ).

For example, the campaign to make English the de jure official language of various states in the United States of America is often seen as a way of marginalizing non English-speaking minorities, particularly Hispanic and Latino Americans, while others see it as a unifying force among numerous immigrant groups.