Eggington is a village and civil parish in the South Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, about three miles east of Leighton Buzzard. Apart from the village of Eggington, the parish also includes the hamlet of Clipstone. Nearby places are Leighton Buzzard, to the west, Hockcliffe, to the north and Stanbridge to the south. To the northeast of the village is Eggington House built in 1696. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... South Bedfordshire is a local government district in Bedfordshire, England. ... Bedfordshire is a county in England and forms part of the East of England region. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my [birth]right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked... Location within the British Isles Arms of the Leighton-Linslade Town Council Leighton Buzzard is a town near the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, and is between Luton and Milton Keynes. ... Hockliffe is a village in Bedfordshire on the crossroads of the A5 road (formerly Watling Street) and the A4012 road. ...
EGGINGTON: I respect what you said, I don't think anyone is arguing here that English isn't the language of opportunity.
EGGINGTON: Of course not and that's why you have a language policy or a language plan and this is what happened in Australia and in Switzerland and lots of other places.
EGGINGTON: Because this is my area, I mean I hate using the word expert, but I get paid a fair amount of money to do a lot of research.
Eggington, an Australian native and a linguistics professor at Brigham Young University, brings an Olympic perspective to the language issue, having attended the past three Olympic Games (Atlanta in 1996, Nagano in '98, and Sydney last month) and worked as a consultant for his home country's Olympic organizing committee.
Eggington feels it is not the best option for Utah either; in fact, he prefers that the state take the opposite approach and develop a language policy that exploits Utah's multilingual resources, just as his native Australia did in the late 1980s.
It is Eggington's hope that one of the legacies of 2002 is the heightened perception of Utah as a multilingual resource center, even though the state by then could be an "English-only" enclave.
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