Well, my comment was more eluding to the fact that, until very recently, many Americans learned Latin as part of their primary school education. It was requisite knowledge for university.

This has not been true in America since at least before WWII and the GI Bill.

Latin was never a part of the standard primary school curriculum.

I was talking specifically about pre-WWII. My depression-era grand-parents learned it in school.

70+ years ago is not "very recent" when talking about schooling. Public schooling has only been widely available in the US for less than 150 years and only widely mandated for children in the last 100.

I think you mean "alluding". Eluding means avoiding.

(Secondary school, presumably)

Mere use of the Latin alphabet gives a preference to some nations...

Some is not one, though. Especially in the case of large values of "some"

Conspiracy theorists would have a fun time with an official language of the Vatican being selected for the purpose of anything as basic and universal as time itself, even if just for a label.