Not really. In conventional usages, the term "dialect" is usually reserved for variations within the Standard English varieties of the various nation-states where English is the dominant tongue--e.g., American English, Australian English, Canadian English.
Phlurgleshnordt is not the name of a dialect.
No, American English is pretty distinct from British English at this point, especially what most people think of as a Southern dialect. The closest dialect of American English to British English (I assume you mean BBC British, because British dialects get more disparate the farther down the social ladder they go) is probably something in New England very near the East Coast, or maybeupper-class coastal Southern English. The problem is that the accents have remained more similar than the dialects have.
Yes, British English is considered a dialect of the English language.
There's no such thing as "American." American English is a dialect of English that is more has more than 95% lexical similarity to British English.
No, American English is pretty distinct from British English at this point, especially what most people think of as a Southern dialect. The closest dialect of American English to British English (I assume you mean BBC British, because British dialects get more disparate the farther down the social ladder they go) is probably something in New England very near the East Coast, or maybeupper-class coastal Southern English. The problem is that the accents have remained more similar than the dialects have.
American English is considered a dialect of the English language, as it shares a common linguistic foundation with British English but also has distinct vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar features that set it apart.
Yes, American English is considered a dialect of the English language.
No, American English is pretty distinct from British English at this point, especially what most people think of as a Southern dialect. The closest dialect of American English to British English (I assume you mean BBC British, because British dialects get more disparate the farther down the social ladder they go) is probably something in New England very near the East Coast, or maybeupper-class coastal Southern English. The problem is that the accents have remained more similar than the dialects have.
No. American dialect is different from the British.
In the United States, the word "lorry" is not commonly used; however, in British English, it refers to a large motor vehicle used for transporting goods. In American English, the equivalent term would be "truck."
English (American Dialect)
In the American dialect of the English language "football" is one sport, "soccer" is another. In the British dialect of the English language, the sport the Americans call "soccer" is called "football" they do not play much American Football in Britain.