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King's English   /kɪŋz ˈɪŋglɪʃ/   Listen
King's English

noun
1.
English as spoken by educated persons in southern England.  Synonym: Queen's English.






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"King's English" Quotes from Famous Books



... grammatical and precise and as carefully accented as might be expected of a man whose people never had very much use anyway for the consonant "r." As William Pitman Priest, Esq., citizen, taxpayer, and Confederate veteran he mishandled the king's English as though he had but small personal regard for the king or ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... some what genteel, with a bullying sort of an impudent air, which is mistaken for fashion by those who know no better. A remarkable neat dresser, for that was part of his profession; a very plausible manner and address; a great fluency of language, although he clipped the king's English; and, as he had suffered more than once by the law, it is not to be wondered at that he was, as he called himself, a hout-and-hout radical. During the latter part of his service, in his last ship, he ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Ireland. 'Tis very well known that Ireland is the most learned country on the face of the earth—is, and has been. The schoolmaster has been abroad there for hundreds, almost thousands, of years, and nowhere else in the world to-day is the king's English spoken so purely as in the cities and towns of the ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin



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