Discussion Groups / British English / October 2009

I have an instance where someone is using "English"
(probably not AmerEnglish) words when writing and
I wondered if these can give a reasonable clue as
to what part of the world this individual comes

I am having an argument with the RFC-Editor. My co-author had written:
 but some of them may be required in certain types of article.
and she changed it into
  but some of them may be required in certain types of articles.

The Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor
(author of ‘The Great Indian Novel’) was in the eye of a storm for
answering a question on twitter which went something like this: “Now
that the Govt. of India is enforcing strict austerity measures, when