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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