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[–] 19177209? ago 

No shit you dictionaries are titled that, they're dictionaries of a dialect. As for believing you "perfected" it though, that's pure cope. Might as well claim AAVE perfected english, or french creole in louisiana perfected french. You modified some aspects of the spelling in a minor way, stopped halfway through the process for no reason, and that's about it. Most variant names for things come from normal naming procedures done post seperation of the 2 countries, which makes sense. The only "perfection" you did was randomly removing u's making words like honour look fucking retarded

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[–] 19206585? ago 

The accepted international language is American English.

All foreign international pilots, for example, speak American English with the control towers.

American English is much better.

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[–] 19210281? ago 

Yep, in various international settings, american english is used. However, that is by no means the default. Case in point - the UN which is the de-facto "large international body" uses british english. Coding tends to use us english, diplomacy tends to use british english. Also in terms of which is more commonly taught, british english wins by a country mile https://moverdb.com/british-vs-american-english/ .

So no, american english isn't obviously the "accepted international language" - it's english, with no real distinction made between the dialects, since they're both highly mutually intelligible.

American English is much better.

Yeah no. It makes words like honour and colour and valour look silly. And while people who speak british english are perfectly capable of understanding american english, the reverse does not seem to be true. You should see how many mutts react with shock and horror and accusations of being retarded when I spell foetal / foetus correctly, because they can't even use the skills with their "superior" language to either guess or just google it.