The chances are, it will soon be swept up in the boundless net of the Global Language Monitor. You never know, it might even be the coveted number 1,000,000.Comparing languages* Up to 20 per cent of the words used by Global Language Monitor come from hybrids such as Chinglish and Japlish. Words from Chinglish include the business terms “drinktea”, meaning closed, and “torunbusiness”, meaning open. Bushisms such as “uninalienable” and ‘misunderestimate’ are included.* English is evolving faster than other languages. This year’s additions to the Oxford English Dictionary include “podcast” and “offshoring”.* Spanish linguists say there are 225,000 words in contemporary use.* The largest edition of the Duden German-German dictionary contains about 200,000 words* The Russian language has just reached the 125,000 mark.* French has 100,000 words, one-sixth of the figure used in the UK.But the Academi?ran?se, the body that defines the language, recognises 25,525.Kate Thomas.

Of the thousand shades of green that wash the hills of Tayrona National Park the lightest is the coca leaf. Seen from the air, mud trails spread like yellow veins into the forest, each ending in burnt black scars. These clearances give way to dense coca fields as the growers move deeper into the primary forest, hacking and slashing as they go. Cocaine labs speckle the high ground, hoisted on stilts and wrapped in black polythene against the rain.. TERRORISM

The internal conflicts that blight Colombia pre-date the multibillion-pound cocaine trade but drug money has paid for their indefinite extension. At least 3,000 people each year are dying in the endless and complex fight that no longer enjoys any significant public support.

Cocaine profits have twisted the political motivation of left and right-wing groups and left the country shattered and exhausted. Last week, two children were killed in a bus bombing that signalled an upsurge in violence before the May elections.. Every American kid who has idolised the basketball legend Michael Jordan – and that’s most of them – has wanted to own a pair of Air Jordan trainers. Football fans around the world (and their aunties) walk about in thick clusters wearing David Beckham shirts – the Manchester United, England and Real Madrid incarnations. But when it comes to Muhammad Ali, one of the towering sports figures of the past century, the merchandising tie-ins and commercial spin-offs have been few and far between That is, until now.. Here is a tease you might have expected to read on Page Six, the inimitable gossip spread that appears daily in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post.