The purpose of this paper is preliminary and exploratory research of the linguistic functions of English in the Republic of Macedonia. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Kachru (1985), the functional perspective encompasses several categories that refer to different kinds of language use: instrumental function, which deals with English in education; interpersonal function; and imaginative/ innovative function, referring to the creative use of language in literature. Although this last function is represented as characteristic for the Englishes in the outer circle, in this paper it will be used as a way to explain the changes that English and the native language undergo in the process of lexical item nativizations in the expanding circle, as illustrated by Berns (1990).