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{{Use British English|date=October 2026}}

This maintenance template adds articles to the hidden category Category:Use British English to denote articles that use British English spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. It may be used for:

• Articles with strong ties to the United Kingdom, per MOS:TIES
• Articles with no ties to the United Kingdom where British spelling has been arbitrarily chosen for consistency, per MOS:RETAIN
• Articles using British-style English elements (e.g. "centre", "colour", "footballer") common to multiple countries where no specific national standard of written English can be identified
• Articles with strong ties to a country where the national standard of written English is indistinguishable from British English after MOS:COMMONALITY is applied.

Related templates:

• Articles using British-style spelling but with -ize endings or IUPAC-standard spellings for chemistry should use {{Use Oxford spelling}}.
• For tagging talk pages and edit notices, see {{British English}}.

This tag is used by the Engvar script for spelling correction purposes.

For guidelines on how different varieties of English are used in Wikipedia articles, see MOS:ENGVAR.

Maintenance categories

• Category:Articles using Use British English with unknown parameters (0)

See also

• Wikipedia:Database reports/Multiple "Use xxx English" templates, a report showing articles using two or more of the templates listed below.

• {{Use American English}}
• {{Use Australian English}}
• {{Use British English}}
  • {{Use Oxford spelling}}
• {{Use Canadian English}}
• {{Use Hiberno-English}}
• {{Use Hong Kong English}}
• {{Use Indian English}}
• {{Use New Zealand English}}
• {{Use Nigerian English}}
• {{Use Pakistani English}}
• {{Use Philippine English}}
• {{Use South African English}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Use British English in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Use British English

<templatedata> { "description": "This maintenance template adds tagged articles to to denote articles that have British English spelling.", "format": "{{_|_=_}}\n", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was last spell-checked for compliance with this dialect of English. \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2025", "suggested": true } } } </templatedata>

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