Sentence:  With English, however, the notion that there is a given standard, be it BrE or AmE, is currently being undermined by the tendency of Europeans to mix features of AmE and BrE, which along with traces of a mother tongue accent and mother-toungue-based discourse strategies, now characterize the language behaviour of a growing number of foreign-language speakers of English living in mainland Europe. One way of describing this type of language behaviour is to use the designator <WSD>"Mid-Atlantic</WSD> English" ("MAE") (see Modiano 1996a; 1996b; 1998; 1999a; 2002). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Used as an attributive modifier in compounds such as "mid-Atlantic accent" and "mid-Atlantic English"): half-American, half-European; combining American and European elements.