Parish wrote: > Why *American* English? Why not just *English*
Because (it seems like that) most American people, unlike Englishmen, don't care or know how to speak correctly, and what is used is allowed, so almost anything is allowed. Which American writer can use all the tenses correctly (e.g. the progressive past perfect or the conditional ones (if... then)), that students of British English have to learn? I account that to the utterly bad American educational system (and social system in general).
