The World in Words 45: Hillary’s Russian lesson, the decline of Pakistan’s national language and Canadian English spelling

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been circling the globe, hitting the reset button on America’s foreign relations. But then someone at the State Department tried – and failed – to translate “reset” into Russian. Now the Kremlin is urging more Americans to learn Russian. Also this week, middle class Pakistanis prefer English to Urdu…and the historical roots and enduring appeal of spelling the Canadian English way.

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