There are as many varieties of English as there are speakers

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  There are as many varieties of English as there are speakers of it. English         61           
 (speak) as an official language in more than 60 countries, and it can sound very different from place to place.         62          is easy for us to tell British English         63            American English.
There is not really a standard form that everyone can agree on and English is          64             
(wide) spoken, so it is hard to tell which English is correct. As long as speakers can understand each other,         65          (correct) doesn't matter.
Australian  English has traces of both Irish and cockney speech patterns, because the first speakers were prisoners         66           came from all over Britain. Many of the Aboriginal words
         67         (pass) into the language.         68       the main differences lie in the individual sounds and intonation patterns.
But this is not the case, the variety of English         69          (speak) in Jamaica has some of the grammatical features of the American languages.
On the         70      side of the world, in Singapore, English is spoken by about half the population. Sentences often end with the word lah. English here has been influenced especially by Malay and the Chinese dialect Hokkien.

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