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

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

Episcopalians seem to be polls apart It was in 1549 that the Church of England forsook the Latin liturgy and began worshiping in the king's English.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Besides," added he, "between you and I, she murders the king's English abominably; so she has acted the part of a wise woman in holding her tongue, and trusting to her pretty face."

From Bracebridge Hall by Irving, Washington