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On Englishness and Britishness

2021
Abstract In Chapter 2 we ask who are the English and where might they be found? Using different survey measures, we show that, even if English identity has strengthened since the early 1990s, those who view themselves as strongly English remain deeply attached to Britishness. We also demonstrate that, with the partial exception of London,
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British English? American English? Are there such things?

English Today, 2016
In the last issue of English Today I argued that while the differences between American and British English may be small, they are innumerable, varied and interesting. But that article (and many of the things I write) invited the question of whether it even makes sense to talk of American English and British English.
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Sonority in British English

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2013
Our previous study on British English speech [Nakajima et al.; Fechner Day (2012), Ottawa] was extended into the domain of phonology. Factor analyses were performed on the power fluctuations of the outputs of 19 critical-band filters, which separated British English sentences uttered by two female speakers and one male speaker into narrow-band signals.
Yoshitaka Nakajima   +3 more
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Upspeak in British English

English Today, 1997
An examination of a novel UK rising tone, with reference to its use in some other Anglophone ...
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British or American English?

2006
Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says
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British and American English

2013
The paper compares the two major standards of the world: British and American English. After learning the main basics of phonetics and phonology, the student is taught the main phonological differences concerning British English, which is traditionally the main standard taught in Europe, and American English, which, nowadays, is the most widespread ...
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