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Mac Arrowny posted...

Note that the term "British" in general is never used to refer to the non-England parts of Britain. It's just another word for English nowadays (much like how American used to indicate all of the Americas, but now it's only used for the United States).

it sounds like you need to talk to smarter people more often

DreamEater12 posted...

English and american English is purely down to spellings and such, like when we say car park, and you say parking lot.

If you want to talk dialects, which is where the main issue is, then you encounter problems. Boston, Alabama, California, Texas. All have differing dialects, so should we use the same term for all?

It is the same as scotland, england, n. Ireland, wales. It is the same language, just different dialects. Then you have regional dialects.

There will never be a consensus on this truly until the entire world has a completely standard way of speaking. Which will never really occur.

clearly there's some traits that persist uniformly in america and lack entirely in england despite the existence of many regional dialects......... for example.... rhoticity

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