King's English

Example Sentences

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He, however, is so wrapped up in his studies of phonetics that his only interest in Eliza is her appalling command of the king's English.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2011

It shows that until about 40 years before Abraham Lincoln entered public life, the Lincolns were a wealthy and distinguished family of ironmasters who spoke the king's English.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus.

From Time Magazine Archive

All concerned murder the king's English, but in a grand, Gaelic manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since Caxton established the king's English as a literary language our prose style has often followed the changing fashion of London.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph