English

Proper noun

English English

1. A dialect of the English language that is spoken mostly in England. Compare British English.
   • 1900, George Bernard Shaw, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Notes,

     My own tongue is neither American English nor English English, but Irish English; so I am as nearly impartial in the matter as it is in human nature to be.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:English English.

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