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What's The Definition Of Basic English?

Basic English in American English
a simplified form of the English language, devised around 1930 by Brit. linguist and writer C. K. Ogden (1889-1957), and proposed for use as an international auxiliary language and for beginning studies in English: it consists of a selected vocabulary of
noun: a simplified form of English restricted to an 850-word vocabulary and a few rules of grammar, intended esp. as an international auxiliary language and for use in teaching English as a foreign language: devised by Charles Kay Ogden

basic English in British English
noun: a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language

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