British English

== English == === Adjective === British English (comparative more British English, superlative most British English) Of or relating to, or spoken or written in British English. === Noun === British English (uncountable) 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. Synonyms: Britglish, Britlish, BE, BrE, BrEn, BR-en, EN-br, Brit, en-gb, en-GB; Commonwealth English (narrowly coordinate) Hypernyms: English < natural language < language Hyponyms: BBC English, English English, Elizabethan English, Estuary English, King's English, Multicultural London English, NZE, Queen's English, Scottish English, Welsh English Coordinate term: (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. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== British English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Quotations === For quotations using this term, see Citations:British English. === References === “British English”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “British English”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.