What spread English more? 18th-19th century British hegemony

America after the world wars. Before that English was only spoken in the British colonies.

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>>3367912
>18th-19th century British hegemony

Are you trolling?
In the 18th century Britain was barely like the 6th most powerful country in Europe
As for their 19th century "hegemony" (which wasnt really one) it was really limited to within the borders of their empire of dust

As for you question

>During the 17th century, French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca). It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War.[60][61]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language#Modern_French

Basically, until WW2, no one could speak English outside of the British Empire and the US
Then Americans became the cultural hegemon and invented mass media (pop music, Hollywood and later the internet) which spread English language to commoners all over the relevant world (Europe, East Asia, Russia....)

>>3367912
Both.

>>3367947
>t. quiaboo

>>3367947
Imagine typing all this out

>>3368061
Two 3 lines paragraphs + a quote?
Damn that must be exhausting

>>3367928

Forgetting that the colonies equaled about one quarter of the worlds population.

>>3368101
Yeah but not the brightest
What made English relevant was America spreading it to Europe, Japan, Russia...etc
1 billion Indians and 500 millions Nigerians are irrelevant on the grand svheme of things