[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.

[britemp]

It is still tautolgical and unecessary. You would not say someone spoke Germanic German or French French. You would either say French, referring to the original version spoken in France or you would use the geographical modifier, such as Canadian French. The same rule applies to English, but common useage in the US has led the tautology to become accepted.