British English

English Pronunciation en /ˈbɹɪ.tɪˌʃɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-British English.wav Southern England Adjective Of or relating to, or spoken or written in British English. Noun - The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom; en often that which is spoken in both the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, considered as a single variety. en Britglish Britlish BE BrE BrEn BR-en EN-br Brit en-gb en-GB ; Commonwealth English<qq:narrowly coordinate> en English<id:English language> < natural language < language en BBC English English English Elizabethan English Estuary English King's English Multicultural London English NZE Queen's English Scottish English Welsh English en symbols AmE 1861, “The Shakespeare Mystery”, in The Atlantic Monthly, v 8, n 47, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 258 (note): We shall not say that this is British English; but we willingly confess that it is not American English. en 1863 w:George Perkins Marsh The English Language in America Lectures on the English Language 4th New York Charles Scribner http://books.google.com/books?id=GfsRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA667&dq=%22British+English%22 667 Some noticeable and general differences between American and British English may be explained by the fact, that considerable bodies of Englishmen sometimes emigrated from the same vicinity, and that in their new home they and their multiplied descendants have kept together and continued to employ dialect peculiarities of their native speech, or retained words of general usage which elsewhere perished. en 1867 w:Richard Grant White Words and their Uses: British English and American English The Galaxy 4 New York http://books.google.com/books?id=Ji8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=%22British+English%22 102 Now, according to my observation, no man whom the Dean of Canterbury, or the Public Orator of Cambridge, would accept as a speaker of pure English, says, with thick utterance, “a gloss of ayull;” and yet thousands of their countrymen do speak thus, and this peculiarity of British English passes very gradually away as social and mental culture increase, until among the best-bred and best-educated people it vanishes, and is heard no more than it or a nasal twang is heard among similar people here. Related terms en African English Anglo-English Cockney African-American English (Ebonics) Alaskan English Australian English Bahamian English Bangladeshi English Barbadian English (Bajan English) Belizean English Bermudian English Brunei English Cameroonian English Canadian English Canajan Caribbean English Channel Island English Chinese English (Chinglish) Ceylonese English (Sri Lankan English) English English European English Falkland Islands English Gibraltarian English Guyanese English Hong Kong English Indian English Irish English (Hiberno-English) Jamaican English Japanese English (Engrish) Kenyan English King's English (Received Pronunciation) Liberian English Malawian English Malaysian English Maltese English Manx English (Anglo-Manx) Namibian English (Namlish) Nepalese English Newfoundland English (Newfinese) New Zealand English Nigerian English Northern Irish English (Ulster English) Pakistani English Pennsylvania Dutch English Philippine English Queen's English (Received Pronunciation) Scottish English Singapore English (Singlish) South African English Sri Lankan English (Ceylonese English) Standard American English Tamil English (Tanglish) Trinidadian and Tobagonian English Ugandan English Ulster English (Northern Irish English) Welsh English Yeshiva English (Yeshivish) Translations English language as in Britain, especially in England Arabic: ar اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة اَلْبِرِيطَانِيَّة f al-ʔingilīziyya l-biriṭāniyya Bengali: bn বিলাতী ইংরেজী bilatī ingrezī Cherokee: chr ᎩᎵᏏᏲ ᎩᎵᏏ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 英國英語 Yīngguó Yīngyǔ, cmn 英式英語 Yīngshì Yīngyǔ Danish: da britisk engelsk Dutch: nl Brits-Engels Finnish: fi britannianenglanti; fi brittienglanti colloquial, fi englanninenglanti colloquial French: fr Anglais Britannique m Galician: gl inglés británico m Georgian: ka ბრიტანული ინგლისური German: de britisches Englisch n, de Britisches Englisch n proscribed or nonstandard Hungarian: hu brit angol Italian: it inglese britannico Japanese: ja イギリス英語 Igirisu Eigo, ja 英英語 Ei-Eigo, ja 英々語 えいえいご, Ei-Eigo Korean: ko ^영국영어(英國英語) Latin: la Anglica Britannica f Malay: ms bahasa Inggeris British, ms Inggeris British Polish: pl dialekt brytyjski języka angielskiego m Portuguese: pt inglês britânico m Russian: ru брита́нский англи́йский m Scots: sco Breetish Inglis Spanish: es inglés británico​/​reinounidense m Swahili: sw Kiingereza cha Uingereza Swedish: brittisk sv engelska Tamil: ta பிரித்தானிய ஆங்கிலம் Turkish: tr Britanya İngilizcesi Vietnamese: vi tiếng anh của người Anh Volapük: vo Linglänapük Britänik Further reading Quotations en References en retronyms en Dialects English