L is for Language and the fact I had forgotten that over 300 of them are spoken in London today, including Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Yorubu (Nigeria), English-based Creoles. Those of us with English as our first language often arrogantly believe everyone therefore speaks English, though on a well travelled polestar like London More

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