Editing British English (section)

== Relationship with Commonwealth English ==
British English is the basis of, and very similar to, [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthews |first=R. J. |title=New Zealand English: A Case Study |date=December 1982 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-971X.1982.tb00525.x |journal=World Englishes |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=75–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-971X.1982.tb00525.x |issn=0883-2919}}</ref> Commonwealth English is English as spoken and written in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth countries]], though often with some local variation. This includes English spoken in [[Australian English|Australia]], [[Languages of Malta#English|Malta]], [[New Zealand English|New Zealand]], [[Nigerian English|Nigeria]], and [[South African English|South Africa]]. It also includes [[South Asian English]] used in South Asia, in English varieties in [[Southeast Asia]], and in parts of Africa. [[Canadian English]] is based on British English, but has more influence from [[American English]], often [[North American English|grouped together]] due to their close proximity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tirban |first=N |date=2012 |title=The Major Difference between British and American English in Written and Oral Communication. |url=https://old.upm.ro/cci12/volCCI_II/Pages%20from%20Volum_texteCCI2-117.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724103127/https://old.upm.ro/cci12/volCCI_II/Pages%20from%20Volum_texteCCI2-117.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2022 |url-status=live |journal=Communication, Context, Interdisciplinarity |issue=2012 |pages=985–990 |via=Google Scholar}}</ref> British English, for example, is the closest English to Indian English, but Indian English has extra vocabulary and some English words are assigned different meanings.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dash |first=Niladri Sekhar |date=2007 |title=Indian and British English: A handbook of usage and pronunciation (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/218142 |journal=Language |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=465 |doi=10.1353/lan.2007.0065 |s2cid=144960858 |issn=1535-0665}}</ref>