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BrE en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of British English.
   alt of British English
   • The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition. 2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:

Coordinates

NZE · AmE

Hypernyms

English · natural language · language

Relateds

RP