What is the language "British"?

[David Fletcher]

On Monday 28 August 2006 15:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> They are not the same in the context of language.  "English" is a
> language while (whilst) "British-English" is regional.  In
> "British-English" defense is written "defence".

I think you've got it the wrong way around. "Defence" is the correct spelling.  
In the American regional variation "defence" is written "defense". It's not 
the standard way of spelling the word, but it is a fact that many things we 
do don't conform to the recognised standard. For instance millions around the 
world use the $soft .doc format to store office documents. We all know that 
Open Document Format is the ISO standard but people still choose not to 
conform.

Dave Fletcher


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