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142 relations: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, A Dictionary of the English Language, Académie Française, American and British English spelling differences, American English, Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Saxons, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Australian English, BBC, BBC News, BBC Online, Black Country, British Council, British Isles, British Library, British people, British Sign Language, Brittonicisms in English, Cambridge University Press, Canadian English, Chambers Dictionary, Cockney, Collective noun, Collins English Dictionary, Common Brittonic, Commonwealth of Nations, Continental Celtic languages, Corby, Cornish language, Countries of the United Kingdom, Cumbric, Dialect, Dialect levelling in Britain, Double negative, Early Modern English, East Anglia, East Midlands, East Midlands English, England, English alphabet, English and Welsh, English in the Commonwealth of Nations, English language, English language in England, English language in Northern England, English language in Southern England, English-language spelling reform, Eric Partridge, ... Expand index (92 more) »
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
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A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson.
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Académie Française
The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language.
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American and British English spelling differences
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. British English and American English are dialects of English.
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Anglo-Frisian languages
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian†, and Yola†) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.
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Anglo-Norman language
Anglo-Norman (Anglo-Normaund), also known as Anglo-Norman French, was a dialect of Old Norman that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, other places in Great Britain and Ireland during the Anglo-Norman period.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities.
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Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. British English and Australian English are dialects of English.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Black Country
The Black Country is an area of England's West Midlands.
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British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
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British Library
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.
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British people
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.
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British Sign Language
British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. British English and British Sign Language are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Brittonicisms in English
Brittonicisms in English are the linguistic effects in English attributed to the historical influence of Brittonic (i.e. British Celtic) speakers as they switched language to English following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon political dominance in Britain.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. British English and Canadian English are dialects of English.
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Chambers Dictionary
The Chambers Dictionary (TCD) was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872.
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Cockney
Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots.
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Collective noun
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole.
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Common Brittonic
Common Brittonic (Brythoneg; Brythonek; Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Continental Celtic languages
The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany.
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Corby
Corby is a town and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, north-east of Northampton.
Cornish language
Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. British English and Cornish language are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Countries of the United Kingdom
Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province, jurisdiction or region).
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Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what became the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (now combined as Cumbria), and also Northumberland and northern parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. British English and Cumbric are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
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Dialect levelling in Britain
Dialect levelling is the means by which dialect differences decrease. British English and dialect levelling in Britain are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Double negative
A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is an area in the East of England.
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England.
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East Midlands English
East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. British English and East Midlands English are languages of the United Kingdom.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English alphabet
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.
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English and Welsh
"English and Welsh" is J. R. R. Tolkien's inaugural O'Donnell Memorial Lecture of 21 October 1955.
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English in the Commonwealth of Nations
The use of the English language in current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was largely inherited from British colonisation, with some exceptions. British English and English in the Commonwealth of Nations are dialects of English.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. British English and English language are languages of the United Kingdom.
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English language in England
The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects.
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English language in Northern England
The spoken English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related accents and dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern (English) in the United Kingdom).
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English language in Southern England
English in Southern England (also, rarely, Southern English English; Southern England English; or in the UK, simply, Southern English) is the collective set of different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England.
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English-language spelling reform
For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language.
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Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand–British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang.
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Ernest Gowers
Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (2 June 1880 – 16 April 1966) was a British civil servant and author who is best remembered for his book Plain Words, first published in 1948, and his revision of Fowler's classic Modern English Usage.
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Estuary English
Estuary English is an English accent, continuum of accents, or continuum of accent features associated with the area along the River Thames and its estuary, including London, since the late 20th century.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Geordie
Geordie is an English dialect spoken in the Tyneside area of North East England, especially connected with Newcastle upon Tyne, and sometimes known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. British English and Geordie are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Glottal stop
The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.
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Grammatical conjugation
In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar).
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Hart's Rules
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (now published as New Hart's Rules) is a reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press (OUP).
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Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. British English and Hiberno-English are dialects of English.
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History of English
English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Inner London Education Authority
The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was the local education authority for the City of London and the 12 Inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990.
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Internal migration
Internal migration or domestic migration is human migration within a country.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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Kettering
Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England, north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Linguistic prescription
Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language.
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Linking and intrusive R
Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena where a rhotic consonant is pronounced between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus, that would otherwise occur in the expressions, such as tuner amp, although in isolation tuner is pronounced the same as tuna in non-rhotic varieties of English.
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List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom
Below are lists of the countries and territories that were formerly ruled or administered by the United Kingdom or part of the British Empire (including military occupations that did not retain the pre-war central government), with their independence days.
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Lists of English words of Celtic origin
These lists of English words of Celtic origin include English words derived from Celtic origins.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily.
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Middle English
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.
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Mixed language
A mixed language, also referred to as a hybrid language, contact language, or fusion language, is a language that arises among a bilingual group combining aspects of two or more languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language.
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Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
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Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century.
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Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.
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Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
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New Zealand English
New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders. British English and New Zealand English are dialects of English.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Newfoundland English
Newfoundland English is any of several accents and dialects of Atlantic Canadian English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Nigerian English
Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a dialect of English spoken in Nigeria. British English and Nigerian English are dialects of English.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
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North American English
North American English is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada. British English and North American English are dialects of English.
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North Sea Germanic
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.
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Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old Norman
Old Norman, also called Old Northern French or Old Norman French (Ancien Normaund), was one of many varieties of the langues d'oïl native to northern France.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxford spelling
Oxford spelling (also Oxford English Dictionary spelling, Oxford style, or Oxford English spelling) is a spelling standard, named after its use by the Oxford University Press, that prescribes the use of British spelling in combination with the suffix -ize in words like realize and organization instead of -ise endings.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English.
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Regional accents of English
Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language. British English and Regional accents of English are dialects of English.
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Rhoticity in English
The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified.
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Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language.
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Roman army
The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Scots language
ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots. British English and Scots language are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Scottish English
Scottish English (Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools". British English and Scottish English are dialects of English.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. British English and Scottish Gaelic are languages of the United Kingdom.
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Sociolect
In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.
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South African English
South African English (SAfE, SAfEn, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans. British English and South African English are dialects of English.
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South Asian English
South Asian English is the English accent of many modern-day South Asian countries, inherited from British English dialect. British English and South Asian English are dialects of English.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.
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Survey of English Dialects
The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds. British English and Survey of English Dialects are languages of the United Kingdom.
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T-glottalization
In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents, particularly in the United Kingdom, that causes the phoneme to be pronounced as the glottal stop in certain positions.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Complete Plain Words
The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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Tom McArthur (linguist)
Tom McArthur (23 August 1938 – 30 March 2020) was a Scottish linguist, lexicographer, and the founding editor of English Today.
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Ulster English
Ulster English, also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland. British English and Ulster English are dialects of English.
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Unified English Braille
Unified English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to encompass the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today, in uniform fashion.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Usage (language)
The usage of a language is the ways in which its written and spoken variations are routinely employed by its speakers; that is, it refers to "the collective habits of a language's native speakers", as opposed to idealized models of how a language works (or should work) in the abstract.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
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Vocabulary
A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.
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Welsh English
Welsh English (Saesneg Gymreig) comprises the dialects of English spoken by Welsh people. British English and Welsh English are dialects of English.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. British English and Welsh language are languages of the United Kingdom.
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West Country English
West Country English is a group of English language varieties and accents used by much of the native population of the West Country, an area found in the southwest of England. British English and West Country English are languages of the United Kingdom.
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West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
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West Midlands English
West Midlands English is a group of dialects of the English language native to the English West Midlands. British English and West Midlands English are dialects of English.
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West Saxon dialect
West Saxon is the term applied to the two different dialects Early West Saxon and Late West Saxon with West Saxon being one of the four distinct regional dialects of Old English.
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Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
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Yorkshire dialect
Yorkshire dialect (also known as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is a dialect of English, or a geographic grouping of several dialects, spoken in the Yorkshire region of Northern England.
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See also
Languages of Gibraltar
- Arabic
- Berber languages
- British English
- Gibraltarian English
- Languages of Gibraltar
- Llanito
- Maghrebi Arabic
Languages of the United Kingdom
- Angloromani language
- Anguillian Creole
- Arran Gaelic
- Bermudian English
- British English
- British Sign Language
- British slang
- Brummie dialect
- Cayman Islands English
- Cornish language
- Cumbric
- Deeside Gaelic
- Dialect levelling in Britain
- East Midlands English
- English language
- Falkland Islands English
- Galwegian Gaelic
- Geordie
- Gibraltarian English
- Gujarati language
- Janner
- Language education in the United Kingdom
- Languages of England
- Languages of Northern Ireland
- Languages of Scotland
- Languages of Wales
- Languages of the United Kingdom
- Llanito
- Mackem
- Manx language
- Norman language
- Northumbrian dialect
- Pitkern
- Punjabi language writers in the United Kingdom
- Romani language
- Scots language
- Scottish Gaelic
- Scouse
- Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects
- Survey of English Dialects
- Turks and Caicos Creole
- Welsh Romani language
- Welsh language
- West Country English
- Yan tan tethera
- Yola dialect
References
Also known as Alderney Accent, Alderney English, BrE, Bringlish, Brit english, BritEng, British English language, British Islands English, British Isles English, British Virgin Islands English, British dialect of English, British dialect of the English language, British pronunciation, British regional slurs, British-English, Channel Island Accent, EN-GB, EN-UK, English (England), English (UK), English (United Kingdom), English as spoken in The British Isles, English in Britain, English in Great Britain, English in the United Kingdom, English language (United Kingdom), English language in Britain, English language in Great Britain, English language in the United Kingdom, English language of Britain, English language of Great Britain, English language of the United Kingdom, English language/British English, English of Britain, English of Great Britain, English of the United Kingdom, GB English, Guernsey Accent, ISO 639:en-GB, There is no such thing as "British English", U K English, U. K. English, U.K. English, UK English, Ukonian English, United Kingdom English.