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by umanwizard 3742 days ago
Everyone in the U.S. knows this word. The U.S. is a majority of native English speakers.
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Native English speakers are a minority among all English speakers.
True, but not if you weight by impact/influence on what's considered standard English, globally.

Probably someday that will be the case, but it isn't yet -- the US still has an outsize influence.