'अंग्रेज़ी' or 'अँगरेज़ी'
In North & Central India, to address 'English', the word 'अंग्रेज़ी' (An'grezī) or 'अंगरेजी' (An'garejī) is used. Sometimes 'अँगरेज़ी' (A̐garezī) was used in literature, although I consider this incorrect.
IMHO, we should use 'इंग्लिश' rather than 'अंग्रेज़ी', Other spellings should be avoided.
We could use 'इंग्लैंडवासी' instead of 'अंग्रेज़,' although readers may scoff at the term today. Nevertheless, it may sound perfectly natural thirty years from now, when Indians fluent in classical Hindi may be outnumbered by those more fluent in—or more inclined toward—English than Hindi.
On webpages, in mobile SMSes, etc., the word is written in the following forms:
Angrezi 40%, Angrezee 32%, Angreji 26%, Angrejee 1%, Angarejee 0.1%, ...
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