Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Arghhh.... There is NO SUCH THING as "British English". It's actually two
COMPLETELY SEPARATE languages that the Americans lump together!
The Saxons in England speak English. The Angles in Scotland speak Scots (a
very *similar* language). The Scots (in Ireland :-) speak Gaelic.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Scots is a dialect of English,
not a "similar" language. The language in Ireland, by the way, is Irish, and
not generally referred to as "Gaelic" by anyone who knows better, and the
Celtic language of Scotland is called by its native speakers "Gaelic" (first
syllable pronounced "gal" -as in the feminine of "guy"). So though they
don't identify "British English", they do identify "English English" and
"Scots English", which most assume are more similar to one another than they
are to "American English", or at the very least, having a more mutually
intelligible vocabulary.
>From the OED:
Under "English"
c. English English, English as spoken in England as differentiated from
that spoken, e.g., in the United States of America.
Under "Scots"
2. Of language: a. The distinguishing epithet of the dialect of English
spoken by the inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scotland. Also absol. as n.,
the Scottish dialect.
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