Commonwealth English

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Commonwealth English is a blanket term for the English that developed during the British Empire after the United States of America left it. Thus it is the English of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South Asia, using British English as its ancestral model, in contrast to Canada, whose English remains a variety of American.