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# Breetish Inglis

**Breetish Inglis**, or **UK Inglis** (**BrE**, **BE**, **en-GB**), is the broad term uised tae distinguish the forms o the Inglis leid uised in the Unitit Kinrick frae forms uised elsewhere. The *Oxford English Dictionary* applies the term tae Inglish "as spoken or written in the Breetish Isles; esp[ecially] the forms o Inglis uisual in Great Breetain...", reservin "Hiberno-Inglis" for "The English language as spoken and written in Ireland".

Thare are slicht regional variations in formal written Inglis in the Unitit Kinrick (for ensaumple, awtho the wirds *wee* an *little* are interchangeable in some contexts, ane is mair likely tae see *wee* written bi someane frae northren Breetain - especially Scotland - or frae Northren Ireland than bi someane frae Soothren Ingland or Wales). Nivertheless, thare is a meaningful degree o uniformity in *written* Inglis athin the Unitit Kinrick, an this coud be describit as "Breetish Inglis". The forms o spoken Inglis, housomiver, vary considerably mair than in maist ither auries o the warld whaur Inglis is spoken, an a uniform concept o "Breetish Inglis" is therefore mair difficult tae apply tae the spoken leid. Accordin tae Tom McArthur in the *Oxford Guide to World English* (p. 45), "[f]or mony fowk...especially in Ingland [the phrase *Breetish Inglis*] is tautologous," an it shares "aw the ambiguities an tensions in the wird *Breetish*, an as a result can be uised an interpretit in twa ways, mair broadly or mair narrowly, athin a range o blurrin an ambiguity".

## See forby

* Scots Inglis

## Freemit airtins

* Sounds Familiar? Archived 2016-09-12 at the Wayback Machine– Examples o regional accents an dialects athort the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' wabsteid
* Accents an dialects frae the British Library Sound Archive
* Accents of English from Around the World Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Hear an compare hou the same 110 wirds are pronoonced in 50 Inglis accents frae aroond the warld - instantaneous playback online
* The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary– an online dictionary o Breetish slang, viewable alphabetically or bi category