UK English
- noun
- UK
:
inglés británico
- The book was published with UK English spelling to cater to the audience in the United Kingdom.
Examples
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Going to the Construction Site With Daddy (van Dam, 2009), for example, is available in English, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish, and some producers, such as Nosy Crow, allow English language books to be read with UK English spellings or U.S. English spellings.
Academic text (2013) -
Many people worldwide are learning UK English to understand British culture and literature.
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Spelling checked & corrected by ddt (UK English)
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What raised my bullshit flags: the use of UK English (codeine 'tablets'? prams?
Blog text (29) -
I instinctively add a 'u' to a few words from having written a lot with a UK English spell checker, and I never suffix '-iser' with a 'z.'
Blog text (29) -
In writing, one must decide whether to use UK English or American English based on the target audience.
Synonyms
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English used in the United Kingdom with different spelling and words
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the variety of English spoken in the United Kingdom' is directly and compositionally derived from 'U.K.' (United Kingdom) + 'English' (the language), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes the English used in the U.K. This noun phrase follows a straightforward, cross-linguistic modifier + noun pattern and does not require idiomatic or metaphorical knowledge.
Etymology
UK English comes from joining UK, meaning the United Kingdom, and English. Think of a map of Britain with British spellings like 'colour' and words like 'lift', so the name means the 'variety' of English used in the UK.