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- proper noun linguistics Abbreviation of
British English .
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Examples
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As an American who now does a lot of his reading with the BBC (working at the Council will do that!), I’ve had the impressionistic feeling that this is more common in BrE than AmE.
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Beliefs, values and theory aside, I think there may be a BrE and AmE difference relating to scale with the word ‘curriculum’.
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He may have judged that a German of that age who would have learnt BrE would succeed in an approximation to AmE pronunciation but not its variant preferences with respect to individual lexical items.
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In BrE it has this use, but is also used to mean 'thank you', 'goodbye' or 'thanks and goodbye'.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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If the usage may not be recognised in the UK, certainly no chance I should ever encounter it in any form in Armenia, where BrE is what is taught and learned.
On being a tragic DC 2009
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For some reason I had a notion that stress was disregarded in all cases in BrE, but obviously words like "targetted" fall a little less than easily on the eye.
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This means that American 'my grain' pronunciation is a known variant in BrE.
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One could point out many Americanisms that have found very comfy homes in BrE, and which no one complains about.
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And this is why there usually are ten times as many candidates for AmE-to-BrE Word of the Year as BrE-to-AmE candidates.
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She looked out of the window [BrE]/She looked out the window.
Kottu 2010
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