SH> In addition, it is more than a little bit difficult to set up a "central
 SH> authority" for English when there are 326,652,000 English speakers in
 SH> the world and only 69% of those live in the United States of America.

   You keep returning to this argument, but, as I've said before, the
Queen's English already is fairly uniform throughout the world. It's the US
English, the language that spells words like "colour"
differently, that seems to be in need of some sort of standardization.

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