BRITISH ENGLISH NOT SAME AS AMERICAN ENGLISH.(PERSPECTIVE)

Byline: FRANK D. CAREY Troy

Harry Rosenfeld's June 29 column, ``British the best reason for official English,'' made some assertions that were surprising coming from a person who spent so much of his life as a successful journalist. He criticizes the British for using variations of the English language in movies that make it difficult for Americans to recognize as the same language.

I got news for you -- British English and American English aren't the same language, nor is one a dialect of the other. This fact was driven home to me many years ago when I was traveling to Turkey, and our plane stopped over at Heathrow airport in London. While I was browsing …