sorry for being anally retentive but this really really peeves me. Americans are not nor will they ever be native English speakers. I’m quite happy and willing to accept American English. i love you all to bits and this is nothing personal.
In fact, i think the IT industry speaks and communicates in American English!! that is why all sorts of stuff goes wrong when you set your your language to UK English instead of American.
And i believe air traffic controllers use international English which is to say words agreed upon.
i think the choice of language is driven by the major contributors and as such i am glad a certain helpdesk/outsource country has big emphasis on it’s future work force learning English (queens English we call it here)