The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

* BSE, any of various variants of British English, when treated as a stand-in for a standardized form of the language

* British English, the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language.

* British language, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

* Brythonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from British

The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

* The Fiddler's Companion, an encyclopedia of historical notes on tunes from British, Celtic, and American traditions.

Native Celtic peoples had been marginalized during the period of Roman Britain, and when the Romans abandoned the British Isles during the 400s, waves of Germanic peoples, known to later historians as the Anglo-Saxons, migrated to southern Britain and established a series of petty kingdoms in what would eventually develop into the Kingdom of England by AD 927.

The town is first recorded as Verlamion, a Celtic British Iron Age settlement whose name means ' the settlement above the marsh '.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

The band were also strongly influenced by the music of the British, Celtic and American folk revivals.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

At 2500 stadia, approximately 283 miles, or 3. 6 °, north of Celtica, are a people Hipparchus called Celtic, but whom Strabo thinks are the British, a discrepancy he might not have noted if he had known that the British were also Celtic.

Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding Shintō beliefs into Buddhism or the amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christianity during its spread into Gaul, the British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia.

They also have many parallels across the Celtic world: Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens ; Lugh is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus ; Tuireann is related to the Gaulish Taranis ; Ogma to Ogmios ; the Badb to Catubodua.

The Lizard peninsula's original name may have been the Celtic name " Predannack " (" British one "); during the Iron Age ( Pytheas c. 325 BC ) and Roman period, Britain was known as Pretannike ( in Greek ) and as Albion ( and Britons the " Pretani ").

Historically, British people were thought to be descended mainly from the different ethnic stocks that settled there before the 11th century ; pre-Celtic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman.

The geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75 % of the modern British population could ( in theory ) trace their ancestry back 15, 000 years.

In a British context, the autumn ancestor festival corresponds to Halloween, which derives from the Celtic Samhain.

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company

* Hubert Austin ( 1845 – 1915 ), British architect

* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher

* Aberdeen Station ( TransLink ), SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

* Animal ( journal ), full title: Animal: An International Journal of Animal Bioscience, British academic journal

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

* Atlantic ( film ), a black and white British film

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

Demeritt ( 1995 ) argues that in British Columbia ( and Canada generally ), there were three overlapping agrarian viewpoints.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Adrian Bailey ( born 1949 ), British Labour Co-operative politician

* Adrian Archibald ( born c. 1969 ), British motorcycle racer

* Adrian Newey ( born 1958 ), British race car engineer and designer

* Adrian Turner ( born 1977 ), British Olympic swimmer

* Adrian Chiles ( born 1967 ), British television and radio presenter

* Adrian Heath ( painter ) ( 1920 – 1992 ), British painter