In History of English^x, British English^x

accent a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary grammar and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a...

lt It is a pity that many people won t bother to read anything about the history of English and simply assume that British English is the purest variety of the language because English originated in Britain gt It s a bit like people who don t bother to read anything about the wider use of...

Hi nona the brit It is a common misbelief that Britons speak a variety of English which is close to earlier varietes of English which emerged in the British Isles This is not the case American English is in many ways much closer to Early Modern English and Middle English than is present day...