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		girvo on July 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to r... Though your intuition is correct: the amount of English speakers outnumbers that of Mandarin, but Mandarin significantly outnumbers English in terms of native-language speakers

melesian on July 6, 2021 [–]

The number of English speakers (in correct English).

Amount is for uncountable nouns, like butter, sugar etc.

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