"World Englishes"

In Languages & Life Lessons, I talk about the different versions of English I encounter in my work:

My lack of social life and my focus on writing also steered me toward Twitter and connecting with other writers, which exposed me to even more versions of English. I met Canadian, British, and Australian authors, each with their own vocabulary and different grammar rules — including punctuation. The editor in me wished they would all agree on one way of doing things, grammatically speaking. I listened to many author interviews and met writers from all over the world on Skype and Zoom to discuss their editing needs. Interacting with other speakers of English was no easy task — I am, after all, the same person who couldn’t understand Harry Potter without having the captions displayed while watching the movies — but like with most things, practice made it better.


This morning, I read an interesting article, by Stuart Allen, about the varieties of English around the world, and I decided to share it with other language lovers: 
https://www.tefllemon.com/the-many-varieties-of-english-around-the-world-and-how-they-evolved