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USdefaultism of this post should be used in The International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the metrics for all other USdefaultisms.
333 million Americans, 67 million Brits, 26 million Australians.
1.4 billion Indians. So what?
They're talking about native English speakers. Did you really not get that? There are also a lot of Chinese people, try yelling that out of context, also.
English is one of the official languages in India.
Even if only 1/10 of Indians grew up speaking it alongside Hindi or one of the other official languages (it's a pretty big and varied country), it still adds up to 140 million people, so the previous poster has a valid point.
this post is about native accents. choose an accent (from native accents), normal, fancy or wildcard.
sorry, I re-read your post this morning, I missed when you said "official languages" for some reason. I take your point