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They don't speak English. Cortana just translates.
Remember the mission "Delta Halo" from Halo 2? At the end, in the cutscene between that mission and the next, is the prophet of Regret humming a language, Cortana floats up, snaps her fingers and then he's speaking English.
Yeah, that's basically it.
Come to think of it, do we really know that all humans in Halo speak English? I mean, most languages don't last more than a few hundred years, and Halo is set 500 years in the future, which means that in that the English language would have to be, what, 1300 years old?
Maybe they're speaking a new language (which is most likely an advancement on English) and the game is just translating what they say to us.