Диалекты и лингвострановедение

British English, or UK English or English English (BrE, BE, en-GB), is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.[2] There is confusion whether the term refers to English as spoken in the British Isles or to English as spoken in Great Britain,[3] though in the case of Ireland, there are further distinctions peculiar to Hiberno-English.
Speakers of any given language sometimes get offended when their particular language style is called a dialect. To avoid any confusion, I would therefore like to explain what I mean by the term "dialect."