The European English project, or European language project, is a new project meant to create a common language in Europe based on English to curb the barriers within the European Union.

There are 25 nations in Europe and some 20 languages. There is, however, no official common language, so it is hard -- although it is becoming quite common -- for a European citizen to work abroad because of the language barreer. The European Parliament is struggling, as well: there are hundreds of combinations of possible translation combinations, like Greek-French or Danish-Spanish.

While there are many variants of English, there is no official international language to facilitate communication in Europe.

This is the raison d'etre' of the European English project.

The idea is to recommend the usage of English words that are widely understood and introduce new words that are not part of common knowledge.

Examples of synonyms : It is recommended to use to curve instead of to bend because curve is easily understood in Europe. Other examples include:

• a committée instead of a board
• to initiate instead of to boot up
• intelligent instead of clever
• occupied instead of busy
• to explode instead of to blow up
• pork instead of pig

Examples of new words:

• A shirt in called camisa in Spanish and Portughese, camicia in Italian, and chemise in French, which have a common Latin root. Thus the new word camisa in European English easily substitutes the English variant, since many would easily understand and remember it.
• Dos (like in many European languages) instead of two.
• Quatre like in many European languages instead of four.
• Inferno instead of hell, because inferno is already known by both English speakers and "Europeans".

Proposition of new spellings:

• Thirti instead of thirty, because specialists of phonetics and spelling agree that there is risk of confusion in prononciation:
• "y" is often prononced like in the word "sky"
• "i" is often prononced like in the word "pig".

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