Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
To the best of my knowledge there are only two languages in the world which have a supervising body: French, and Hebrew.
Not to prove Fr Bill wrong but in fact English is one of the only large languages without a board or supervising body. I know that Dutch does and they are constantly making unwanted changes to the language. The most recent is that young people were saying google as a verb and the board said that it should be googelen which is the same word as "do magic", to the ancients it might seem like magic . Also the "g" was supposed to change from the English g to the Dutch guttural.

Scottish Gaelic also has Bord na Gaidhlig and Irish has Foras na Gaeilge. I am sure the welsh have one.

Here is a list of many.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...age_regulators

My point is, that English is amazing that it doesn't have one but it is probably less changing than the other languages because a single body cannot decree that a change must be made. Words slip in and out of use but ultimately the grammar remains the same and as long as oldies are out there to tell us how it is done we'll get it right... eventually.