Below you will find example sentences with "british english". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

British English in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: english
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26 words

Words in this phrase

british english

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • british can mean: The residents or inhabitants of Great Britain. Common word
  • english can mean: Of or pertaining to England. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

american and british english spelling differences 1× and in british english as a 1× as in british english she resigned 1× as with british english rather than 1× british english can be 1× british english is more 1× british english tends to 1× concept of british english is more 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

algeo p 49 1× another difference between 1× australian english began 1× british english can 1× british english is 1× british english tends 1×

Common sentence endings:

in american english 2× apply to eponyms 1× as a stone 1× as many canadianisms 1× british english too 1× british english wind 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

american 13× australian 5× language 4× use 4× new 3× spoken 3× may 3× speech 2× foreign 2× vowel 2× longer 2× short 2×

Related phrases

british columbia english language english literature british government british prime english speakers modern english british empire english word british fleet

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around english:

english language 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

british empire british columbia british citizen british airways brings people bringing together

Just after it in the phrase index:

british fleet british government british museum british pound british prime british royal

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

british columbia british government british prime british empire british fleet british airways

Same ending:

modern english old english middle english

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "british english" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 26 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as american and british english spelling differences, and in british english as a, american, australian and language stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with british columbia, english language, english literature and english language, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with british english

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

British English can be a rather formal kind of the English language. (12 words)

It does not address the sundering of American English from British English. (12 words)

It contains elements of British English and American English, as well as many Canadianisms. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English requires that periods and commas be placed inside closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside. (40 words)

Another difference between New Zealand and Australian English is the length of the vowel in words such as "dog", and "job" which are longer than in Australian English which shares the short and staccato pronunciation shared with British English. (39 words)

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, citation so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

The corpus has speech data in three English accents (U.S. English, British English, and Indian English), culled from 251 U.S. speakers and synthetic voices generated by Google Cloud Platform’s text-to-speech API.

English as a lingua franca in foreign language teaching seeAlso English as an additional language (EAL) is usually based on the standards of either American English or British English as well as incorporating foreign terms.

Australian English began to diverge from British English after the founding of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English requires that periods and commas be placed inside closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside.

Another difference between New Zealand and Australian English is the length of the vowel in words such as "dog", and "job" which are longer than in Australian English which shares the short and staccato pronunciation shared with British English.

Learners who wish to use purportedly correct English are in fact faced with the dual standard of American English and British English, and other less known standard Englishes (including Australian, Scottish and Canadian).

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, citation so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language.

While prepositions before days may be omitted in American English, i.e., She resigned Thursday, they must be retained in Australian English, as in British English: She resigned on Thursday.

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These can hardly form acceptable expressions in British English, though it may in American English.

British English can be a rather formal kind of the English language.

It does not address the sundering of American English from British English.

Algeo, p. 49. According to the New Oxford Dictionary of English, such use is increasingly rare in British English too.

British English tends to use the full stop or period (.) when telling time, compared to American English which uses Colons (:) (i.

Colloquially, flatulence may be referred to as "farting", "trumping", "passing gas", "breaking wind" or simply (in American English ) "gas" or ( British English ) "wind".

In addition, Middle English had a long /ɛː/ in beat, like modern short e in bed but pronounced longer, and a long /ɔː/ in boat, like the vowel of law /lɔː/ in British English.

It contains elements of British English and American English, as well as many Canadianisms.

National varieties of English * American and British English spelling differences can occasionally apply to eponyms.

Nevertheless, there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in written English within the United Kingdom, and this could be described by the term British English.

Olea europaea contains a seed commonly referred to in American English as a pit or a rock, and in British English as a stone.

Ranges of dates use to, i.e., Monday to Friday, as with British English, rather than Monday through Friday in American English.

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