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"text": "Coordinate term: (symbols) AmE"
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"ref": "1861, “The Shakespeare Mystery”, in The Atlantic Monthly, v 8, n 47, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 258 (note)",
"text": "We shall not say that this is British English; but we willingly confess that it is not American English."
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"ref": "1863, George Perkins Marsh, “The English Language in America”, in Lectures on the English Language, 4th edition, New York: Charles Scribner, page 667:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1867, Richard Grant White, “Words and their Uses: British English and American English”, in The Galaxy, volume 4, New York, page 102:",
"text": "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.",
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{
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{
"word": "Indian English"
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{
"word": "Liberian English"
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{
"word": "Malawian English"
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{
"word": "Malaysian English"
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{
"word": "Maltese English"
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{
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"alt": "Namlish",
"word": "Namibian English"
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{
"word": "Nepalese English"
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{
"alt": "Newfinese",
"word": "Newfoundland English"
},
{
"word": "New Zealand English"
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{
"word": "Nigerian English"
},
{
"tags": [
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},
{
"word": "Pakistani English"
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{
"word": "Pennsylvania Dutch English"
},
{
"word": "Philippine English"
},
{
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},
{
"word": "Scottish English"
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{
"tags": [
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{
"word": "South African English"
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{
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},
{
"word": "Standard American English"
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{
"alt": "Tanglish",
"word": "Tamil English"
},
{
"word": "Trinidadian and Tobagonian English"
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{
"word": "Ugandan English"
},
{
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"Northern"
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{
"word": "Welsh English"
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{
"alt": "Yeshivish",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"roman": "bilatī ingrezī",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "বিলাতী ইংরেজী"
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{
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
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{
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},
{
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
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{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "ბრიტანული ინგლისური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"proscribed"
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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},
{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英英語"
},
{
"alt": "えいえいご",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "Ei-Eigo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英々語"
},
{
"alt": "英國英語",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Yeonggugyeong'eo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "영국영어"
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{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
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{
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"word": "Kiingereza cha Uingereza"
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{
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
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{
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "tiếng anh của người Anh"
},
{
"code": "vo",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"alt": "Namlish",
"word": "Namibian English"
},
{
"word": "Nepalese English"
},
{
"alt": "Newfinese",
"word": "Newfoundland English"
},
{
"word": "New Zealand English"
},
{
"word": "Nigerian English"
},
{
"tags": [
"English",
"Ulster"
],
"word": "Northern Irish English"
},
{
"word": "Pakistani English"
},
{
"word": "Pennsylvania Dutch English"
},
{
"word": "Philippine English"
},
{
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
],
"word": "Queen's English"
},
{
"word": "Scottish English"
},
{
"tags": [
"Singlish"
],
"word": "Singapore English"
},
{
"word": "South African English"
},
{
"english": "Ceylonese English",
"word": "Sri Lankan English"
},
{
"word": "Standard American English"
},
{
"alt": "Tanglish",
"word": "Tamil English"
},
{
"word": "Trinidadian and Tobagonian English"
},
{
"word": "Ugandan English"
},
{
"tags": [
"English",
"Irish",
"Northern"
],
"word": "Ulster English"
},
{
"word": "Welsh English"
},
{
"alt": "Yeshivish",
"word": "Yeshiva English"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: (symbols) AmE"
},
{
"ref": "1861, “The Shakespeare Mystery”, in The Atlantic Monthly, v 8, n 47, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 258 (note)",
"text": "We shall not say that this is British English; but we willingly confess that it is not American English."
},
{
"ref": "1863, George Perkins Marsh, “The English Language in America”, in Lectures on the English Language, 4th edition, New York: Charles Scribner, page 667:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1867, Richard Grant White, “Words and their Uses: British English and American English”, in The Galaxy, volume 4, New York, page 102:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom; (often) that which is spoken in both the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, considered as a single variety."
],
"links": [
[
"English",
"English"
],
[
"United Kingdom",
"United Kingdom"
],
[
"Commonwealth of Nations",
"Commonwealth of Nations"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Britglish"
},
{
"word": "Britlish"
},
{
"word": "BE"
},
{
"word": "BrE"
},
{
"word": "BrEn"
},
{
"word": "BR-en"
},
{
"word": "EN-br"
},
{
"word": "Brit"
},
{
"word": "en-gb"
},
{
"word": "en-GB"
},
{
"word": ";"
},
{
"word": "Commonwealth English[Appendix:Glossary#narrowly|narrowly]] coordinate>"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "al-ʔingilīziyya l-biriṭāniyya",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة اَلْبِرِيطَانِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bilatī ingrezī",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "বিলাতী ইংরেজী"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Yīngguó Yīngyǔ",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英國英語 /英国英语"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Yīngshì Yīngyǔ",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英式英語 /英式英语"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "britisk engelsk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Brits-Engels"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "britannianenglanti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "brittienglanti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "englanninenglanti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Anglais Britannique"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inglés británico"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "briṭanuli inglisuri",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "ბრიტანული ინგლისური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "britisches Englisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nonstandard",
"proscribed"
],
"word": "Britisches Englisch"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "brit angol"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "inglese britannico"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Igirisu Eigo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "イギリス英語"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Ei-Eigo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英英語"
},
{
"alt": "えいえいご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Ei-Eigo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "英々語"
},
{
"alt": "英國英語",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Yeonggugyeong'eo",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "영국영어"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anglica Britannica"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "bahasa Inggeris British"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Inggeris British"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "brytyjski angielski"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inglês britânico"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "británskij anglíjskij",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "брита́нский англи́йский"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Breetish Inglis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inglés británico"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Kiingereza cha Uingereza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "brittisk engelska"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Britanya İngilizcesi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "tiếng anh của người Anh"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "English language as in Britain, especially in England",
"word": "Linglänapük Britänik"
}
],
"word": "British English"
}
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