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Results tagged with british-english
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This tag is for questions related to English as used in Great Britain, and sometimes Ireland.
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Why do we use a French term for a currency-exchange office?
The actual answer is that long ago the upper classes of Great Britain considered French a language of prestige and commerce and injected it wherever they could into speech- there are French phrases th …
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Which version of English influenced the other? British / American
Most American English is very characteristic of the way British people would have sounded around the time of colonization, which would have been in the 17th century: at the time most speech in England …
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Is there an American English dialect that sounds as "distingushed" as British English?
I know this is very late, but I would warn you that almost nobody in the United States speaks like that nor has spoken like that since before World War II. Generally speaking that accent mimicked man …
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Are there clear differences in formality of words between British-English and American-English
English as a language does not work the same way as say, Korean or Japanese where there are all those honorifics to consider and even changes to the verbs: there were periods in history where this was …
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"Viewer discretion is advised"
Actually, I think as an American I can shed some light on the subject, and it is not necessarily grammar related.
"Discretion" in this instance is a synonym for judgment, reason, as in, "Decide at …
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