Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.
Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.
I could have guessed Liberia, but I remember being genuinely surprised when I first discovered that Belize spoke English. I’d have expected Spanish, given the geography.
Oh gods what did we do to make them anglophones? Belize, I know what we did to Liberia
Belize was the Brits, not Americans.
Ok, I’m just used to someone fucked around in south America in English it’s probably America
Well, Belize is actually in North America (Central America and the Caribbean are considered to be part of the North American continent). There is an English-speaking country in South America as well: Guyana, which used to be known as British Guyana.
Damn Brits they made me able to communicate with foreigners! Next you’re going to tell me there are a lot of people in Hong Kong who speak English. And they never even bothered to make one of their colonies speak Welsh as a joke
Until 1973, Belize was called British Honduras, that makes it less surprising.