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You may notice that Websters is a dictionary of "American English." It does not include the back compartment of a car as one of the definitions of a "boot," and a "torch" is not a battery operated device. This is slightly more than a dialect. A dialect is differences in the spoken language between regions or the variety of a language used by members of a social class or occupational group. I still don't buy that it is enough to make it a seperate language.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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