BSE

BSED1, or the first edition of the Brussels Standard English Dictionary, is, as its name suggests, the first edition of the European Standard English Dictionary published in Brussels in the year 2100. Before 2100, the English used officially by the European Union was British English. From that time onwards, European English was considered a different standard from English, which was generally more conservative and mixed British and American features, as well as characteristics specific to the languages of Europe. Technically, European English distinguishes three varieties that function as a macrosystem of speechs:


 * General European English (GE): This is a koine dialect that mixes British and American characteristics without distinction, both phonetically, as well as in semantics, syntax, and so on, usually with many influences from European languages, especially Romance languages. Before 2100 the standard language was British English, but in reality for interlingual communication Europeans used this continuum of dialectally neutralised features called General European.
 * Standard European English (SE): In 2100 General European English was standardised for the first time in BSED1 to facilitate communication and teaching within the European Union once Europeans refused to have a British standard which was often difficult to understand for most Europeans and had generated a situation of diglossia. BSED1 turned out to be much more conservative in pronunciation than British English and normalised the influence of American English. Over time different editions of the BSED were published, until the year 2300 when Euro became the official standard. This page will only describe the features of the BSED or Brussels Standard English Dictionary, in its most diverse British and American English editions. The first edition is the most conservative and will therefore not be taken into account.
 * Vernacular European English (VE): After the standardisation of European English, both British and Americans were dissatisfied, so European English began to function as the standard language of the European Union, becoming increasingly Europeanised and moving away from its constituent English dialects. Many families, mainly French and German, tried to teach Standard European English to their children as a first language, resulting in a partially creolised English that would be considered vernacular. This vernacular proved to be much easier for Europeans to learn and spread in a matter of 50 years, by the year 2300 it would become the new official standard and would be called Euro /ɨʁə/, as a shortening of European, in contrast to the Euro currency, which is pronounced /ɨʁo/.

Phonology
The phonology used by the BSED Standard European English remained stable throughout all editions of the BSED.

Consonants
Some consonant phonemes that were marginal were reinterpreted as allophones and merged as follows:


 * ŋ > ng
 * ʍ > hw
 * x > h
 * ʔ > "disappears"
 * ɬ > l