Questions tagged [british-english]
This tag is for questions related to English as used in Great Britain, and sometimes Ireland.
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Answering "Have you got" questions with "I do"
For the question "Have you got any ice cream?" which is correct:
Yes I do
Yes I have
or inversely
No I don't
No I haven't got any
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Is there any difference between "color" and "colour"?
What is the difference between color and colour?
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Are "betwixt", "trebble", etc., acceptable in American English?
I grew up speaking British English. The words I learnt were occasionally marked off in papers, despite their being English words. Are words like betwixt, trebble, learnt acceptable in papers for ...
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