Despite attention from world leaders, Basic English never got very far off the drawing board. As it turns out, culling your vocabulary doesn't exactly make for crystalline prose.

MR. CHURCHILL announced in the House of Commons on March 9 that the Committee of Ministers on Basic English has submitted a report which has been approved in principle by the Government. So far as ...

The U.S. version of the survey was conducted only in English, and many immigrants, unsurprisingly, tend to struggle more with what is often not their home language: 19% of adults in California say ...