British English

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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British Englishadj/ˈbɹɪ.tɪˌʃɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  • 1

    Of or relating to, or spoken or written in British English.

British Englishnoun/ˈbɹɪ.tɪˌʃɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  • 1

    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.

    • We shall not say that this is British English; but we willingly confess that it is not American English.
    • 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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