[britemp]

‘You do realize there are differences between British English and American English, don’t you?’

There is no such thing as ‘British English’.

There is English and there is American English. British English is a tautology and therefore redundant. One is not required to stress the geographical identifier on the original version of something. Hence English postage stamps do not have the country printed on them as they were invented by the English and The Times newspaper does not need London or UK in its title as it was the first so-named. Thus the English version of English does not need proceeding with British, but the geographical subversions such as American English do. :)

[aruanan]

There is no such thing as ‘British English’.

There is English and there is American English. British English is a tautology and therefore redundant.

No, it's not. If I refer to someone's English dialect and someone else asks "which English" and I can say American or Indian or Liberian or South African, I can logically and with no redundancy say "British English". The fact that a question can be answered and requires the modifier "British" to be answered correctly if I'm referring to the English of the British Isles demonstrates this.

[weegie]

“English Postage Stamps” - Is England printing its own postage stamps now?

Somebody should tell the British Post Office. they will be very upset