The European Commission announced in 2007 an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”. More

Al Ma’mun had founded the most important institute of higher learning in Islam which also became the most celebrated center of translation in Arab history.

Beit Al Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad, functioned as an academy, library, and translation institute which had a personnel of around 65 translators. More