Ever heard of globalisation, John? Or the internet?
Borders don’t exist for languages any longer.
Trump could build the biggest wall he liked around the entire United States of America and it still wouldn’t keep American English from “escaping”.
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that is true, but still not an argument why should everyone on the planet speak and know only American English 
I find that understanding and speaking a bit of 普通话/putonghua and a lot of Spanish rather polite… I mean, taking into account how many of “us” are natives of these languages (and some Hindi, and some Russian, and Bahasa … aaahm etc)
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I think you will find that there is a very international team working for memrise. They don’t have a policy of hiring “Brits only”. The original founders of memrise are British, I believe, and the company has its offices in London, but I don’t think memrise has ever made a mission statement declaring that it is its policy is to only create courses using British English.
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To clear the air, that in itself was not what I was referring to as intolerant. Coming to the forums to rant about it and stating, as a ‘fact’, that “Americans are destroying the English language” is what I was calling intolerant, and it absolutely is. 
I’m an American who was raised with and taught American English. I often scratch my head when I run into expressions, spellings, etc. from British English that I’m unfamiliar with, too. I deal with it. In fact, I find it pretty interesting to see the differences. If I were to find myself in a situation where it was somehow disrupting my learning, I would simply switch courses. Not come to the forums and demand that things revolve around me.
I’m well aware that there are many Americans saying similar nonsense; that the world should revolve around us, too. I don’t say or think such things, and I won’t attempt (or accept responsibility) to answer for them. They irritate me, too. 
amanda-norrsken pretty much summed up what I was going to say in reply:
Besides, Memrise isn’t the US, the UK, or any other country. It’s a website on the internet. To be fair, I can (better) understand where you’re coming from if you thought that admin was an official account, but it doesn’t seem to be.
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There is no such thing as ‘British English’. There is English, the language which we speak in these islands and there is American English, the language that most Americans speak, just as there is also Australian English, Canadian English and so on.
Dear Amanda, you are verging on patronising me now. Memrise is based in East London and not even your charming president can do anything about that.
What does my ‘charming president’ have to do with anything…? Who’s patronizing who here?
To expect languages to somehow ‘stay contained’ on the internet is close-minded and unrealistic. Sorry if you don’t like being called out on it. When you come to a forum and say such inflammatory things, you’re going to get negative responses.
In any case, I’m starting to strongly suspect that you’re just a troll, and I’ve really got better things to do with my time today, so I’ll leave it at that.
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But the course WAS created by Memrise, 7-ish years ago, when Memrise probably had a few hundred users. This classic course was part of Memrise’s pursuit of venture capital funding. Users took this course as part of beta-testing Memrise’s initial software. See an undated review here http://www.mustseeon.net/tools/real-life/memrise-com-learn-new-language-in-fun-way/ in which the course is named as one of FOUR French courses on the site.
At that time, Memrise wasn’t promoting and maintaining official courses like they do now. Memrise-created content back then was about demonstrating the features and possibilities.
@john23 - When you search for the new “Created by Memrise” courses that @amanda-norrsken mentions, you can select American English or British English, and you will avoid SOME of the frustratingly unclear English definitions. This thread went sideways because your “Americans are destroying” statement on a public forum simply invites argument. The issue that is frustrating you happens in all language learning, however, especially when learning slang or casual words and being given slang, casual, or outdated definitions.
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I think we can all agree that ‘‘Ebonics’’ is the only thing destroying English as a whole.