KING'S ENGLISH
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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KING'S ENGLISH. A traditional term in Britain that is earlier than, and more or less synonymous with,
STANDARD ENGLISH: ‘an old abusing of Gods patience and the Kings English’ ( Shakespeare,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1.4; 1598). It is altered to the
Queen's English when the monarch is a woman:
‘Plea for the Queen's English’ (title of a work by Henry Alford, 1869, in the reign of Victoria). Formerly invested with considerable respect, the term has in recent years been used less reverently: for example, in
The Queen's English: High Taw Tawk Prawpah-leah (London, Michael Joseph, 1985), the humorist Dorgan Rushton satirizes the
ACCENT technically referred to as ‘
ADVANCED RP’, mainly by means of eye dialect in which
shouting is represented as ‘shiteing’,
family as ‘fear-mealy’, and
taxi as ‘tex-yah’. See
EYE DIALECT,
LONDON,
RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION.
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Music and Liturgy in an English College Chapel King's College, Cambridge
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Oliver!; Feud glorious feud... the talented Mr Dougray Scott on the English Civil War, killing kings and his beloved Hibees.(Features)
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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King, Thomas
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
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The King Arthur Flour Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
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King, B. B.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
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King, Richard
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...Richard and Henrietta King. The Kings were tough and determined...ownership was established the Kings set up residence, ready...trespassers. Richard King erected rendering houses...breeding Brahman cattle with English shorthorns. They produced...Times, 1953. Cypher, John. Bob Kleberg ...
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