In article >,
Janet Baraclough > wrote:

> The message >
> from "James Silverton" > contains these words:

> > Since we American are in the majority, one might, if one was to be
> > obnoxious, say standard English cooking terms with translations for
> > other dialects :-)
>
> You may be a majority in rfc, but hardly in Geordie's blog.
> afaik, America is not the majority of English speakers, either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...l_distribution

As far as English as a first language, out of 375 million, 215 are in
the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...peaking_popula
tion

For total English speakers, the US is still on the top, closely followed
by India, and Nigeria is far behind in third.

The US has about a quarter of the English speakers.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA