If an official body was in charge of regulating the entire English language, then no. There are several important problems with such an effort. The first would quickly emerge during the negotiations: what “correct” English should be “correct”? As demonstrated above, there is no single “correct English”. At least there are two, what we in America call “proper English,” which is associated with the general or broadcast American accent, and what the English call “received pronunciation.” Most ideas about what the standard is revolve around one of these two standards. Assuming that Americans and British can agree on which should be the right one (an important assumption), there is still the age-old question of why either of these two should be favored over any of the other dozens of accents in the whole world. A popular idea among linguists is that any use of a language is acceptable as long as it clearly communicates the idea to the recipient. While having a monolithic language can help with this, it can in some ways