By British English

In British English it is usually "speak to" (although "speak with", seen as an Americanism, does seem to be creeping in).

So American English is 'as of' whilst British English is 'as from'. A quick search on the internet gives that people tend to use 'as of' in Australia. You got that right. PBF

Getting into the guts of so called "standard spoken British English dialect" would these examples fit the bill?I'm going to have a glass of Merlot 82, me.I'm having pie and chips, I am.He complains all the time, he does.It's not actually very good is it this play?We're...

Can't the British take consolation in the fact that all Americans speak British English because the English spoken in America was imported from England? And all Britons speak German, Dutch and Danish English because the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from those areas. Nobody spoke English in...

Actually folks, you are confusing a variation in British spelling with the variation between British and American English. The -ize ending is a variant of British English spelling preferred by the Oxford University Press (and I believe until recent years by The Times). Hence it appears as the...

So you can use standard British English and standard Nigerian (!) English. Wow! OK. Got it.CJ

<Hmm, in the other thread, you wanted to hear a definition of a standard from someone, even if you know a real standard doesn't actually exist. And here you are asking why some things are often stigmatized, but others rarely are. So I don't understand what it is that you are trying to...

< MrP's standard seems to be a common variety, even if maybe he doesn't want to define it precisely.>Far from precisely, I'd say.But what's your definition? Firstly, I'd say there no one standard definition and no one standard, if any at all - linguistically speaking....

Hello old chap, Standard spoken British English is the form of English in which "to have chance to" is incorrect, but "to have a chance to" is correct. All the best, MrP

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...