Thank you.
Here are the results: (Actually, these two proposed 'solutions' are one and the same.)
Change the system language: UK was already set as my
preferred and default language, so this has no bearing on correcting the problem.
Change the keyboard language: The
Country was already set to
UK and the Windows display language was also already
set to UK. So this has no bearing.
Again: The switch from a UK to a US keyboard happens randomly
and without my Doing anything, so I might be in the middle of typing a sentence in an email, and one minute the keyboard is UK, and then eventually I type a key that is different on the US keyboard and I realise that the keyboard has mysteriously
changed! This happens to me a few times a year, for years now! Weird, no?