Words in the News: Civil Servant.

The Daily Telegraph reports that under-performing civil servants will be identified and fired.

VOCABULARY

A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.

 • Another 3800 civil servants are being told their jobs are on the line because of federal budget cuts.

From: TheEnglishBlog.

INTERNET WORLD USERS BY LANGUAGE: Top 10 Languages

Internet World Stats presents its latest estimates for Internet Users by Language

Because of the importance of this research, and due to the lack of other sources, Internet World Stats publishes several tables and charts featuring analysis and details here below for the top ten languages and also for the detailed world languages in use by country.

If you want to know more about this -> http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm