Saturday week

[Rover_KE]

Native speakers do not say it.

 

[SoothingDave]

You may well despair! It's a commonplace here, and not just from students, that if something isn't AmE, it must be BrE - to the extent that some contributors still use AE and BE, neglecting that there are many AEs and BEs.

I think it is a useful, broad categorization. Maybe it could be named better. American versus Commonwealth?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't think it will change anytime soon.

 

[emsr2d2]

As has been said already, most dictionaries list BrE and AmE and few, if any, other variants. For my part, I can speak knowledgeably about BrE and I have a lot of American friends (and watched a lot of American TV shows and movies and read loads of books by American authors) but I have little experience of Australian, Canadian, NZ or Indian English.

 

[Raymott]

I think it is a useful, broad categorization. Maybe it could be named better. American versus Commonwealth?

Yes, I've already admitted on another thread that the AmE v BrE dichotomy is sometimes a useful fiction. But it is a fiction for all its utility. Minorities will always be marginalised; that's probably inevitable. It probably matters more when you're one of the minority.
American versus Commonwealth wouldn't work at all, for what I hope are obvious reasons. That seems to be an assertion that everywhere except in America, they speak British English - which is as wrong as saying that everyone outside of Britain speaks American English.

 

[emsr2d2]

That's interesting. I have never considered that people might think that BrE is spoken everywhere outside America. I have always assumed that they know we're talking only about the variant spoken in Britain, hence the name.