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Trendy shoes from the past

During the Renaissance in Venice, noblewomen (WEAR) special platform shoes, called chopines, that were up to 20 inches tall. As (WOMAN) risked falling down in the street, a law was passed there to limit heels to 3 inches. When commoners started wearing heels, their height (REGULATE) according to the status of the wearer: no more than 1/2 an inch for those on the lower end of the social strata.

Bilingual future

There is a growing belief amongst language professionals that the future will be a bilingual one, in which an increasing proportion of the world’s population will be fluent speakers of (MANY) than one language. Before globalisation began, monolingual speakers’ interests (DOMINATE) the English language. It’s almost impossible today to make accurate predictions about what (HAPPEN) to English later when the majority of the people and institutions who use it do so as a second language.