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Some of these forms of English have their own separate, recognised dictionaries. Australian English has had the Macquarie Dictionary since 1981 and in 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting Oxford University PressOxford University Press OUP is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It was chartered as one of the two privileged presses in 1634. OUP" publishes many reference, professional, and academic works incl published dictionaries for both Canadian English and New Zealand English after extended research in these English speaking countries.

Sometimes a Commonwealth English dialect deviates from British English, such as Canadian English spells program (as opposed to programme) and airplane (as opposed to aeroplane), while maintaining some British aspects otherwise, such as the spelling colour (as opposed to color). Australian English also borrows from both British and American spellings.

It is also sometimes refered to as International English, which is while the Australian telephone code of 61 is used for setting up International english on computers.