As a fairly adept Word user, I feel extremely frustrated at the approach by
Microsoft to this genuine problem. Suggestions have been made on this and
other sites about dealing on a document by document basis with the appearance
of English (U.S.) as a language option for text in a document. However, the
fundamental problem is not being addressed as far as I can see, with English
(U.S.) still being provided as a default language option for new documents
being opened. I almost feel as if there's some conspiracy out there to thwart
the removal of this language from my software!!!