Default language: English (US)?

You will be able to change it from US to actual English lol.
What OS are you using?

 

Je ne comprend pas

 

@pamsdish ....have a look on your 3 for the £

 

If in 1772 we'd not fought decently and like gentlemen and not worn red coats (perfect targets), unlike those scruffy colonials, then G.Washington Esq. wouldn't have had the opportunity in 1776 to go independent and commence a subversive assault on our language that has continued to this day. The recent recruitment of Microsoft has strengthened the attack.

However wes not beeetin yet lol us bros and sis noes how to speek like proper. Init.

 

Indeed. I've often wondered how come the British empire got so big considering the military strategy adopted by our side in the days when most of the world was taken was to dress in bright colours and march bolt upright in tight formation, at walking pace, in open ground, when soldiers of every other culture had long since realised that its best to be invisible.

 

Understand that, but, why no option to change the default?

 

Probably never occured to whoever wrote the program.

Shouldn't affect the day to day running of the site. Not noticed anything spelt without a U anywhere.

 

No Loli it`s 3 or # I know it`s the keyboard that`s americanised,i have checked every key, when i had my first computer back in noughties, I could not find the @ it was clearly marked somewhere on the right hand side, but it didn`t work , a friend who was a whizz had a look, went into settings and it was set to american, on the 2 changed it to English UK, and everything was in place..

 

@pamsdish ....Ahhh yes....i had to have my keyboard replaced and it's 'Americanised'....i was searching for the £ and others but eventually found it under the 3 even though it says 'Hash'...see i can't find the 'hash'.....

 

You need a sniffer dog Loli

 

I have noticed a rivalry between USA English speakers and UK English speakers in the matters of IT, since both countries are very skilled when it comes to IT. I don't think they want to do each other any favour, lets put it this way, in order to retain privileges in the matter.
So things like default settings ,as somebody questioned earlier, are programmed in a way so to be more friendly towards one side rather than the other.
It is an important consideration when it comes to websites building because in spite of some people that may say otherwise, a lot enjoy reading expressions and word forms that "make them feel at home".

 

The first time I built an e-commerce website as a freelancer some years ago, I refused to use the then standard terminology of 'shopping cart', because, I insisted, I'm British, the sites audience are mostly British, the site will be hosted in Britain, and the man paying for it is British. I offered him 'shopping trolley' or 'shopping basket' but refused to use 'shopping cart'. After much grumbling, we settled on 'shopping basket'. Nowadays you see 'basket' or 'shopping basket' quite a lot on e-commerce sites. Either I started that trend (unlikely), or there are plenty more pedantic people just like me (more likely).

 

I resemble that remark