Is not the language of the airways English/US/Aus, ?
Peter R-B
Is there such a language as US/Aus?
I think you'll find its just called 'English'. Nothing pompous...that's just the name of the language.
I don't think anyone (US or Aus) needs to feel bad (or that anyone needs to appear to be sickeningly PC in their favour) about the fact that the language they speak is not called 'USian or Australian'. At least no more so than say a Brazialian needs to worry that his language is called 'Portuguese' not Brazialian, an Egyptian speaking 'Arabic', a Mexican speaking 'Spanish', a Senagalese speaking 'French', a Swiss speaking German, a etc..etc...
Good grief!
While Microsoft may have jumped the gun by a few hundred years, by differentiating between the bastardisations of English according to socio-geographical factors (and even set as default the American one), it will take many more years than the IT revolution of the last 20, before they are recognised as different languages or even dialects for that matter.
So 'English' it is. Let's have no more of it.