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Tom McArthur, Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL), was a world-renowned linguist who knew no less than eight languages – Scots, English, French, German, Italian, Persian/Farsi, Sanskrit, Russian, and Cantonese Later he was Director of Studies for the Extra Mural English Language Courses at University of Edinburgh, and subsequently Associate Professor of English at Université du Québec, Canada (p 6)He indicated that English should have the flexibility and the obligation to include words from other cultures to make itself more complete, alive, inclusive, and useful to the world
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