• British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer...
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  • The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The language also...
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    in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling. Many of the differences between American and British/English...
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  • "General British" (to parallel "General American") in his 1970s publication of A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of American and British English and in subsequent...
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    island of Great Britain. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded...
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  • Word » American vs. British Smackdown: Station wagon vs. estate car". Retrieved April 18, 2019. British author George Orwell (in English People, 1947, cited...
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  • Words with specific American meanings that have different meanings in British English and/or additional meanings common to both dialects (e.g., pants, crib)...
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  • simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. For more-detailed charts see: Family tree of English monarchs, from Alfred the Great...
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  • and British English (A–L) List of words having different meanings in American and British English (M–Z) List of English homographs Lists of English words...
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    official maps and documents with British Channel or British Sea for much of the next century. However, the term English Channel remained popular and was...
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  • spoken and written in England include English English and Anglo-English. The related term British English is ambiguous, so it can be used and interpreted...
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  • American English in most regards, classifiable together as North American English, Canadian English also possesses elements from British English as well...
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  • English . American English British English American and British English spelling differences English phonology Survey of English Dialects List of dialects...
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    delimiters. English in Southern England (also, rarely, Southern English English; Southern England English; or in the UK, simply, Southern English) is the...
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  • to 1825, as defined by Queen Elizabeth I. In England (and the British Empire), English units were replaced by Imperial units in 1824 (effective as of...
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  • variety of English known as Multicultural British English (MBE), also known as Multicultural Urban British English (MUBE) or Urban British English (abbreviated...
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    Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish...
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    in British English, Hiberno-English and Commonwealth English in American English, Newfoundland English and Philippine English in British English in British...
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    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'kingdom', 'realm', 'state', or 'empire') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;...
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    British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain...
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  • in British and American English: A–L. For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z...
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  • influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in...
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  • delimiters. Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into differences in accent (i.e. phoneme...
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  • "English", non-white people were more likely to describe themselves as "British". It is unclear how many British people consider themselves English. The...
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    Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The...
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  • The regnal years of English and British monarchs are the official regnal years of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England from 1066 to May 1707, the Kingdom...
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  • sub-Roman Britain and came to dominate the east and southeast of the island. Around half the population were free, independent farmers (Old English: ceorlas)...
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    English began to diverge from British and Hiberno-English after the First Fleet established the Colony of New South Wales in 1788. Australian English...
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  • The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in...
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  • two keyboards and the differences between American English and British English by having two English language options — a UK setting and a US setting....
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