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Meanings of british english in English

Russian
британский вариант английского языка
Portuguese
inglês britânico
Catalan
anglès britànic
Spanish
be

Forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom.

Related terms
британский вариант английского языка

The dialect of the English language used mostly in the British Isles.

Synonyms
Examples for "bre"
Examples for "bre"
1
Tells about the latter's subtle technique for bre ing a man.
The new yorker
2
W'y, chile, I pick cotton 'fore I leave de bre's', da's a fac'.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
3
I 'ave see dem bre'k t'rough two, t'ree tam in de day, but nevaire dat she get drown!
The Blazed Trail
4
I was diagnosed with adult whooping cough in January and then, soon afterwards, found a small lump in my left bre(...)
The Irish Times
5
The story of the Tar-Baby, the one they tell about Bre'r Rabbit?
Anansi Boys
Usage of british english in English
1
On the English-language version of your CV, use British English.
BBC
2
Literally meaning testicles, it is used as a synonym for 'nonsense' in colloquial British English.
Reuters
3
I heard a few foreign tongues and several variations of what I assumed was British English.
The South African
4
In other news, GeekDad now can be read in American English and "proper" British English.
Wired
5
Jennifer Forde, one of the narrators, speaks British English that sounds superposh to my admittedly provincial American ear.
Wired
6
Again he spoke in British English.
Prince Lestat
7
The second class were British English.
The Professor
8
It's quite possible that the glottalisation of "t" will soon become a standard feature of British English.
The Guardian
9
The same term in British English is a 1 with 12 zeroes, or a million million.
The South African
10
This study reports the development and psychometric testing of the British English MAP-Hand in a UK population of people with RA.
Pubmed
11
This returns British English to the style Latin languages (including Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan) have been using all along.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
12
Burl -or burr in British English -is the weird knobbly pattern that appears in trees that are damaged or stressed.
Wired
13
Phase 1 (cross-cultural adaptation) involved: forward translation to British English; synthesis; expert panel review and cognitive debriefing interviews with people with RA.
Pubmed