English English

English English is a term that has been applied to the English language as spoken in England. In the United States, the term British English is much more frequently used for this variety of English; however, Peter Trudgill in Language in the British Isles introduced the term English English (EngEng), and this term is now generally recognised in academic writing in competition with Anglo-English and English in England.

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English language - England - United States - British English - Peter Trudgill

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In this usage the term British English has a wider meaning, and is reserved to describe the features common to English English, Welsh English, Hiberno-English, and Scottish English. According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English (p. 45), the phrase British English shares "all the ambiguities and tensions in the word British, and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways, more broadly or more narrowly, within a range of blurring and ambiguity".

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Welsh English - Hiberno-English - Scottish English

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