Also Ireland, which is important because of Northern Ireland. It would be politically inconvenient if the time in Dublin were ever to be different from the time in London.

It'll finally be the year of the Esperanto lingua franca.

> Ireland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as the official language

It’s a nitpick to be sure, but shouldn’t it be “ Ireland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as AN official language”

But they picked Irish and Maltese ad their "EU must support it" language, since English was already there.

When Brexit was looming there was a bit of a scare that when the UK was gone English would no longer be supported.

But luckily the EU institutions were not insane.

It’s rather humbling how many languages are spoken by individuals there - and my experience is that people there often have other languages in common too.

EUs English guidelines emphasized en_UK because that used to be the main audience to whom texts should be unambiguous. That requirement is no longer there, so en_EU (which defacto exists, although it has many variations) might now officially move closer to en_US, since that is what most cultural exposure is to for those to whom English is not a first language (i.e. almost everyone in the EU).

I therefore propose a half EU/half US flag pictogram to refer to English from now on.

"English (Traditional) vs English (Simplified)"

(joke explanation: this is a reference to the two Chinese writing systems, used in PRC and Taiwan)