Timeline for What should I call the English spoken in UK?
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| Dec 20, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @mgb An extremely important point. We all love convenient labels (and I'm certainly not an exception), but 'British English' is a term that is used to describe a disparate agglomeration. We should be very wary of using 'BrE' and 'AmE'; there are doubtless as many ideolects as there are us learners trying to tame the beast that is 'English'. | |
| Nov 9, 2011 at 0:51 | comment | added | mgb | @English English is also pointless, Cockney-Yorkshire-Scouse-Geordie has a much bigger variation than between BritishEnglish and AmericanEnglish | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:03 | comment | added | hawbsl | "English English" ... does not exist exist in common usage | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 3:48 | comment | added | ukayer | @nohat - good term of art, but not something you are likely to hear a Brit use. We're more likely to use "English", you know, the original, old skool one:-) | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 18:28 | comment | added | nohat | “English English” is in fact a term of art used in linguistics to describe the dialect of English spoken in England. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 17:56 | history | answered | mipadi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |