British English

forms of the English language used in Britain

class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|The word onomatopoeia with the œ ligature Œ (minuscule: œ), in English known as ethel or œthel (also spelt ēðel or odal), is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words. These usages continue in English and French. In French, the words that were borrowed from Latin and contained the Latin diphthong written as œ now generally have é or è; but œ is still used in some non-learned French words, representing open-

dialect within the English language

dialect of the English language spoken in the European Union

variety of the English language

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English dialect spoken in Cornwall