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n. (alternative form of King's English English)
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King's English may refer to:
- Received Pronunciation, a form of English language pronunciation
- The King's English, a book on English usage and grammar, first published in 1906
- The Reversed Sicilian, a chess opening
Usage examples of "king's english".
His English was improving every day, though Sharpe worried that it was not quite the King's English.
Smart, good-looking gentlemen who spoke the King's English, knew the best manners, and dressed in the latest fashions.
They had subsequently moved back to England, and he had learned to speak using the King's English.
His speech was a shocking caricature of the King's English: his short vowels were long, his long ones interminable: his grammar was frequently execrable.
London, 1793, in which, whether justly or not, Huntington makes Bramah appear to murder the king's English in the most barbarous manner.
The language in which it was written was to fourth century court Latin as Cockney was to the King's English.