Example sentences for: englishes

How can you use “englishes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • General Canadian English—Canadese?—is closer to General American than it is to any of the British Englishes, but it is distinct from the American ones in some spellings, usages, and pronunciations and in a few peculiar intonations.

  • Furthermore, living as we do in a (largely) postcolonial world, we tend to recognize that each national variety of English, that of the United States, of Canada, of Australia, of India, of Nigeria, of Ireland, has its own local standards, and we (that is, linguists) have begun talking about world Englishes, not simply world English, to emphasize this fact.

  • He then became aware of the significant differences between the two Englishes and of the increasing dominance of American English.

  • Listen with an attentive ear to the sounds of Inglish and the Englishes of other lands.

  • With experience, one becomes accustomed to the arrogance of the British who consider the term English to be proprietary, with the understood meaning `British English,' presumably implying that all other Englishes should carry a label, the only place where ( real ) English is spoken being Britain.


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