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Retric • last Friday at 4:23 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers.

Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skills, though the threshold is above knowing a few random words.

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adriancr • last Friday at 4:32 PM

> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.

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shortrounddev2 • last Friday at 4:42 PM

If they are native English speakers, then how do they have extremely limited skills?

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