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1144 "The countries with the highest populations of native English speakers are, in descending order: United States (215 million),[16] United Kingdom (58 million),[17] Canada (17.7 million),[18] Australia (15 million),[19] Ireland (3.8 million),[17] South Africa (3.7 million),[20] and New Zealand (3.0-3.7 million).[21] Countries such as Jamaica and Nigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continuums ranging from an English-based creole to a more standard version of English. Of those nations where English is spoken as a second language, India has the most such speakers ('Indian English') and linguistics professor David Crystal claims that, combining native and non-native speakers, India now has more people who speak or understand English than any other country in the world.[22] Following India is the People's Republic of China.[23]\n" +
1179 "The major varieties of English include, in most cases, several subvarieties, such as Cockney slang within British English; Newfoundland English within Canadian English; and African American Vernacular English (\"Ebonics\") and Southern American English within American English. English is a pluricentric language, without a central language authority like France's Académie française; and, although no variety is clearly considered the only standard, there are a number of accents considered to be more prestigious, such as Received Pronunciation in Britain.\n" +
1372 " It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectal usage and slang (Supplement to the OED, 1933).[32]\n" +
3256 " Standard (ANSI/SVID/...) functions:\n" +
3316 " an unsigned type. The ISO C standard says that it must be\n" +
3512 " __STD_C should be nonzero if using ANSI-standard C compiler, a C++\n" +
3884 " and must reflect values of standard sys calls, you probably ought not\n" +
3934 " Standard unix mmap using /dev/zero clears memory so calloc doesn't\n" +
4048 " This version of malloc supports the standard SVID/XPG mallinfo\n" +
4096 " SVID/XPG defines four standard parameter numbers for mallopt,\n" +
4225 " 0. SVID/XPG/ANSI defines four standard param numbers for mallopt,\n" +
4530 "/* M_MXFAST is a standard SVID/XPG tuning option, usually listed in malloc.h */\n" +
