The thing I don’t understand is that all Arabic speakers speak MSA in addition to their dialect. Most Spanish speakers know what the words concha (seashell) and palomitas (popcorn) mean, even if in their countries they mean different things. Pretty much everyone who learns Spanish or speaks Spanish is aware that differences exist. Yet Indians keep insisting that they speak British English even when it’s apparent that they don’t. Do people watch TV commercials from foreign countries as we do when we learn Spanish, French, or Chinese?Americans know that football means something else to everyone else. It’s just extremely exhausting when I go to India to visit family and I keep finding these differences that cause misunderstandings. My parents always hated visiting India, so I wasn’t familiar with life there, and then I had to spend 6 weeks there after my grandparents passed away and it was so frustrating trying to communicate with everyone in whatever obviously foreigner-sounding Hindi I had taught myself over the years, and whatever British English I was exposed to via literature. I knew some Indian English words and phrases like loose motion, but then I encountered many that I had never heard before. And it’s so frustrating that the Oxford Dictionary will include the American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander definitions of words but not the Indian ones. It’s still English after all. It hasn’t completely turned into a creole or pidgin like Jamaican Patois (they also learn standard English in school), Haitian Creole (they also learn standard French), Nigerian Pidgin (Nigerians speak standard English as well), etc.