ABSTRACT
We have already considered the similarities and dierences between ELF and World Englishes. Another term that requires distinguishing from ELF, although one entirely lacking in the scholarship that underpins World Englishes, is so-called Globish. Whereas ELF is empirically researched, Globish is an arbitrarily simplied version of English based on intuition (see, e.g., Nerrière and Hon, 2009), and not worthy of serious consideration. However, its catchy name means that it has inevitably caught the interest of some in the media (see e.g. McCrum 2010).
