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Canadian English draws its spelling conventions from both American and [[British English]] (or [[Commonwealth English]]). Historically, Canada was closer to the old *[[British English]]

'''Potato crisps''' (in [[British English]], called '''potato chips''' in [[American English|American]]) are a dry sn

'''British English''' refers to the [[dialect]]s of the [[English language]] spoken in the [[U One reason that 'British English' might be associated with standard written language is that one of the most

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...glish is its [[orthography|spelling]] conventions: ''color'' rather than [[British English]] ''colour'', for example. These 'American' spellings are also common in ma

...uring the [[Middle Ages]]. The Roman graphemes æ and œ are still used in [[British English]] for certain words of [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] or [[Latin]] origin, such a

The term neighborhood (or, in British English, neighbourhood) has two spellings and several meanings.

...gh''' is even a [[schwa]] ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [ə]) in British English '''bòrough, Scàrborough''' and '''thòrough''', though in American these ...''', '''Bíngham''' (-ngəm). In such names the '''h''' is usually silent in British English, but pronounced separately in American, which also keeps the strong '''á''

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* [[English language|English]], including differing standards such as [[British English]], [[American English]], [[Australian English]]...

...n Corpus]] (early 1990s American English), and the [[FLOB Corpus]] (1990s British English).

...either in strokes: /'strəʊks/, or square brackets: [skwɛə'brækɪts].<ref>[[British English]] terminology; slashes: /'slæʃɪz/ and brackets: ['brækɪts] in [[Americ ...ger than other vowels, and have a wider distribution in English (e.g. in [[British English]] they can form single-syllable words: 'are', 'or').

...raphic region or social group. For example, according to this definition [[British English]] is a dialect of [[English language|English]], while [[Austro-Bavarian lan

'''Tram''' ([[British English]], ''tramway''; also known as ''streetcar'' in [[American English]]) is a r

...are also known as the Big Dipper (in American English) and the Plough (in British English). Constellations Ursa Major (the "Big Dipper") and [[Ursa Minor]] (the "Lit

...[frequency|frequencies]] of vibrations involved in the production of six [[British English]] [[vowel]]s by an [[adult]] [[male]] [[native speaker]]: from left to rig

...wn that it elicits among the least favourable responses of any accent of [[British English]], and there is peer-reviewed academic research indicating that a police su