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* Japanese [[Gratuitous English]] has [[Useful Notes/Gratuitous English in Japan|its own page]].
* Germany has [
* China has [
* Sweden has [
* In Korea it's referred to as [
* The Philippines has [
* Mexico has it too, where it's widely used in advertising and in youth slang (words like "cool", "fresh", "fashion" and "nice" are common among preppy youths), and is also part of [
* South India has [
* In France, [[Gratuitous English]] is so common that there are [
** In fact, the most notorious of these laws, le loi Toubon, is sometimes jokingly called "the Allgood law" by native francophones, just for ironic effect.
* In the officially bilingual Canada, French and English are often mixed in something known as "Frenglish" or "Franglais" ("anglais" being the French word for "english").
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