I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.