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- proper noun uncommon The generalized variety of English spoken and written primarily in the
United Kingdom and its former colonies, sometimes excluding Canada. Often distinguished fromAmerican English by itsorthography . - proper noun rare The group of varieties of English used in the ex-colonial member states of the
Commonwealth of Nations , in distinction to the varieties used in Britain itself
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