What is Basic English?
{{redirect|BE|the English language as used in the United Kingdom|British English}}{{Infobox language |name = Basic English |creator = [[Charles Kay Ogden]] |created = 1925 |script = [[Latin script|Latin]] |setting = controlled natural language |posteriori = [[Modern English]] |glotto = |ietf = en-basiceng }} '''Basic English''' ('''B'''ritish '''A'''cademic '''S'''cientific '''I'''nternational '''C'''ommercial)<ref>{{cite book|last=Ogden|first=Charles Kay|title=Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar|year=1932|publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited|page=21}}</ref> is a [[controlled language]] used to explain complex thoughts. It has [[Wikipedia:Basic English ordered wordlist|850 words]] chosen by [[Charles Kay Ogden]]. Some articles in the [[Simple English Wikipedia]] use only Basic English. In 1937, Ogden hired [[Otto Neurath]] and [[Marie Neurath]] to make ''International Picture Language'' as one of eight books in Basic English.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ogden.basic-english.org/booksum1.html|title=BASIC Texts|last=Ogden|first=Charles|access-date=2019-03-05|archive-date=2005-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309194227/http://ogden.basic-english.org/booksum1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Over 200,000,000 people speak basic English. ==Rules== The [[grammar]] of Basic English is simpler and more regular than that of standard English. In standard English, words often have a number of different [[meaning]]s. To make Basic English easier, not all the meanings of a word are used. Basic English uses Ogden's rules of [[grammar]]. Ogden's rules of grammar allow people to use the 850 words to talk about things and events simply.<ref>{{cite web | title = Ogden's BASIC English, Rules of Grammar | url = http://ogden.basic-english.org/rules.html | date = 1 January 1996 | access-date = 2009-07-28 | archive-date = 2016-05-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160513094344/http://ogden.basic-english.org/rules.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> # ''-s / -es / -ies