I don’t understand that attitude at all. And yet you get people saying “In Europe…” meaning not-Britain. I reply, “this *is *Europe,” but it doesn’t necessarily go down well.

Is there a shorthand for ‘I didn’t.’ Because I didn’t. Always been pro-Europe and voted Remain. Please don’t assume everyone is the same.

English could be mostly a written language for many people - they read it rather than hearing or speaking it. So changing the spelling, if that is true, would be just the wrong thing to do.