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Originally Posted by Shazza
Now I sometimes even finding myself changing my spelling in posts, :: sigh :: Will be interesting to see how the entire world changes the language, which seems destined to become the most-spoken across the board.
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I think we'll all end up with a version of English that looks very much like US English. The net is so pervasive that it's almost inevitable - and something like 60% of English speakers on the net are American.
I'll be interested to see what happens when more Indians get online however. There are 232 million English speakers in India - and I assume they're speaking UK English. There's only 251 million US English speakers (according to Wikipedia), so the equation might change as India comes online.
I noticed in a recent site update from Smashwords that India ranks fourth in countries that use Smashwords.