Bill: The Lobachevsky song ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4vWJbwmqM

Q ~ I don't think your last point entirely valid. Mere counting of heads will not alter the fact that the language, wherever used, is still called "English"; and all dialects variants must therefore surely be regarded simply as dialects of ours, whose preference, in case of disagreement rather than acceptance of variation (which will of course occur in vast majority of instances), must accordingly be recognised as paramount?

No?.

~M~

I suspect I know what your reply to this last rhetorical question is likely to be.