大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 british english


释义：

british english 英国英语（英国说和写的英语，尤以之与美国英语相区别）

例句：




And not just British English: spelling aside, the Shorter Oxford is thoroughly American as well.


"The original version" is what Engel calls British English, which is like calling one's firstborn "the original child".


In practice, British English today tends to use -ise, while Americans write -ize.


English is, in truth, a family: American English and British English are siblings from the same parentage, neither is the parent of the other.


The SaypU spelling of "top" and "run" have had to be tweaked to take into account the different vowel sounds of American and British English.


Kathy Rooney, the UK editor-in-chief of Encarta World Dictionary, was surprised by the callers that could tell there was a difference between US and British English.


When Matthew Engel wrote here earlier this month about the impact of American English on British English, he restarted a debate about the changing nature of language which ended in dozens of suggestions from readers of their own loathed Americanisms.