English
For more details on this topic, see Hong Kong English.English is a major working language in Hong Kong, and is widely used in commercial activities and legal matters. Although the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC by the United Kingdom in 1997, English remains one of the official languages of Hong Kong as enshrined in the Basic Law.
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Famous quotes containing the word english:
“The mob has many heads but no brains.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)