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  1. British English ( BrE, en-GB, or BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance ...

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  2. Welcome to Wikipedia. , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,830,375 articles in English. From today's featured article. Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. John Richard Clark Hall (1855–1931) was a British scholar of Old English, and a barrister.

  3. British English or UK English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United Kingdom. It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as American English. British English is widely spoken throughout most countries that were historically part of the British Empire.

  4. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, often shortened to the United Kingdom (or UK ), or just Britain, is a sovereign country in Western Europe. It is a constitutional monarchy of four countries which were once separate: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland .

  5. History of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state. England, Scotland, Wales (together: Great Britain) and Northern Ireland are parts of this state. The Acts of Union in 1707 united the crowns and Parliaments of England and Scotland to create (the United Kingdom of) Great Britain.

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