Linguists at the University of Manchester have discovered that their city boasts a population that speaks at least 153 languages, making it one of the world’s most diverse places linguistically.

via Manchester is the most linguistically diverse city in Europe | UK news | The Observer.

I think this is awesome, though I sometimes have problems speaking my one language (I swear, one day Charlotte and I are going to have a conversation completely in grunts).  Obviously the reactionarie are going to tell me that living in a world class city is somehow a bad thing.