# How Does "English (US)" Become the Default? Triangulating Structural Bias Towards American English Across the LLM Pipeline > Source: > Published: 2026-09-29 05:30:32+00:00 Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in educational, professional, and public infrastructure, yet widely used platforms expose "English (US)" as a primary English setting despite the global diversity of English. We ask: How does "English (US)" become the default? We study this ques