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BrE1
- abbreviationhuman sciencesAbbreviation of British English.
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The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition.
2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii
BRE2
plural BREs
- abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of basic regular expression.
Bre3
- A diminutive of the female given name Breanna.
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BrE. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BrE
“BrE.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BrE. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “BrE,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BrE.
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