Jack & Naree wrote: <snip>
If you want to go academic - which is surely the best way to back this whole argument up, you should scan this (ironically american) leading insitute of linguistic research: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=eng
Interesting, the language I speak is further removed from the langauge you speak - I speak a dialect called Australian Standard English, but people in the USA just speak English.
Well, join the UK chapter of the WMF (if it's been created yet) and things might happen.