id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-234 British English - Wikipedia .html text/html 4361 533 67 English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands. The BBC Voices project also collected hundreds of news articles about how the British speak English from swearing through to items on language schools. "Perhaps the most remarkable finding in the Voices study is that the English language is as diverse as ever, despite our increased mobility and constant exposure to other accents and dialects through TV and radio".[13] When discussing the award of the grant in 2007, Leeds University stated: The Oxford University Press guidelines were originally drafted as a single broadsheet page by Horace Henry Hart, and were at the time (1893) the first guide of their type in English; they were gradually expanded and eventually published, first as Hart's Rules, and in 2002 as part of The Oxford Manual of Style. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-234.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-234.txt