>Appeal is intransitive nowadays (except in America), so appeal against decisions. Americans make up 67% of the world's native English speakers! http://en.wik

>Appeal is intransitive nowadays (except in America), so appeal against decisions. Americans make up 67% of the world's native English speakers! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_dialects1997_modified.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_dialects1997_modif... Furthermore, second language learners get far more exposure to Hollywood and US television than they do to RP or whatever the Economist considers to be "standard" language. I can respect their pride in their language, but American, or more accurately North American English, is more than some minority dialect. It's the defacto world standard.