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For children growing up speaking the majority language of a country, there is often no question about what language will be used when they start school. This, however, is not the case for 40% of children all over the world, who are confronted with a completely foreign language when they go to school for the first time (UNESCO 2016).

It occurred to me recently how differently the same utterance can be viewed depending on who utters it. It was simply a case of a noun which had been verbed which got me thinking.