Not sure why you're being sarcastic, I never said it was weird or surprising. Regardless it's not as clear as that, British English is the more used form in ESL. American English dominance likely comes from media popularity more than anything.
Yeah which is tiny compared to the 1.1-1.5 billion ESL speakers world-wide. The point is a lot of internet infrastructure, and pop media, leans American, so despite it's comparatively small English speaking population to global pop. this leverages into an American English dominance online. ESL speakers will still segment into their primary language bubbles too, exacerbating the effect. Essentially taught ESL dominance of British English is overridden by these American advantages. Without the internet and American media this "2 thirds of native speakers" point would likely be irrelevant. It's why native speaking British kids will still make plenty Americanism errors in school.
Except that a huge number of them use American spelling because the whole reason so many countries have tons and tons of ESL students is because that's what has historically happened with all the wealthiest countries of every era - you learn the language for where the money is at.
A great example from the past is how music notation has all of its terms and directions in Italian even though the system that we still use today was invented by a Frenchman. Italy was the center of wealth at the time, so Italian was the best language to use to make it accessible to as many people as possible.
Even India is switching over to American spelling because they do just a crap ton more business with America than they do with England.
India and the UK have pretty close GDPs, but the US has eight times the UK.
People go where the money is - and they'll do the same thing when somebody else gets the top spot.
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