Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The ranks of the Australian Army are based on the ranks of the British Army, and carry mostly the same actual insignia.

The Non-Commissioned Officer insignia are the same up until Warrant Officer ranks, where they are stylised for Australia ( for example, using the Australian, rather than the British coat of arms ).

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

In British, Australian and New Zealand English, along with Dutch and Austrian German, a utility knife frequently used in the construction industry is known as a Stanley knife.

After the fall of Singapore, several thousand British and Australian prisoners of war were sent to camps in Borneo.

* Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes British / Australian social and benevolent organisation.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

Later, however, the British would have spectacular success defeating the Italians and Germans at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, and in the D-Day invasion of Normandy with the help of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

* British Security Policy in Ireland, 1920-1921 Ainsworth, John S. ( 2001 ) Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 1. pp. 176 – 190

This pronunciation is also common in Australian English, but not in General American English or British English.

In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The Parliament of Australia was derived from the British and American systems to form a uniquely Australian system.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

Many of the most important British productions of the 1930s were produced by London Films, founded by the Hungarian emigre Alexander Korda.

In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.

The availability of high-speed Internet Protocol networks has made the British film industry capable of working closely with U. S. studios as part of globally distributed productions.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

In 2001, Marl put together another compilation of original productions with guest rappers for the British BBE label, titled Re-Entry.

Timothy James " Tim " Curry ( born 19 April 1946 ) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich ( as Albert Speer ); Escape from Sobibor ( for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ); Fatherland ; Hostile Waters ; Merlin ; The 10th Kingdom ; Smallville ; Alias ; and ' Salem's Lot.

Regrettably, many of the videotapes and film reels of these seminal TV shows were later erased by the BBC ( an affliction which wiped out large portions of other British television productions as well, such as Doctor Who ), although some of the soundtracks ( which were issued on record ) have survived.

Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera and many of the other British opera companies have mounted productions, as did the reconstituted D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1990 and its closure in 2003.

Between 1951 and 1956 he made 11 films, two of which were MGM productions and the rest were low-budget British or independent productions.

In accepting that these forms of productions were there to stay, scholars began using the term informal sector, which is credited to the British anthropologist Keith Hart in a study on Ghana in 1973 but also alluded to by the International Labour Organization in a widely read study on Kenya in 1972.

Lillie Langtry ( October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929 ), usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U. S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British music hall singer and stage actress famous for her many stage productions including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons and As You Like It.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, and the Bob Larbey British television sitcom, A Fine Romance ( 1981 – 84 ).

Although Decca had set up the first of the British " progressive " labels, Deram Records, in 1966, with such stars as Cat Stevens and The Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and The Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King.

The series has presented numerous acclaimed British productions.

One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children ( 1955 ), which she directed and also starred in the lead role.

He had previously taken smaller parts in a number of British television dramas, appearing in the acclaimed I, Claudius in 1976 as Gratus, the no-nonsense soldier of Caligula's bodyguard who drew Claudius from his hiding-place in the palace, and presented him as the proper heir to the empire, and also as Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York in the BBC's 1982 productions of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays.

After scriptwriting on two productions, Powell entered into a partnership with American producer Jerry Jackson in 1931 to make " quota quickies ", Powell began to direct hour-long films needed to satisfy a legal requirement that British cinemas screen a certain quota of British films.

And in August 2007, as an RSC Honorary Artist, he returned to Stratford for the first time in over 40 years to play Sir John Falstaff in the Courtyard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 which were part of the RSC Histories Cycle – making him the only British actor to have played Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff in major theatrical productions.

The company itself was called Associated British Cinemas ( Television ) Limited, however on exports and some continuing productions for Thames Television, the name Associated British Corporation was used.