| 单词 | queen's english |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQueen's English Queen's English n. (usually with the) the English language regarded as under the guardianship of the Queen of England; (hence) standard or correct English, usually as written and spoken by educated people in Britain; cf. King's English n. at king n. Compounds 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard King's English1553 king's languagea1566 Queen's English1592 received pronunciation?1710 Standard English1806 Southern English1860 World English1888 RP1889 Modified Standard English1913 Received Standard1913 B.B.C. English1928 Oldspeak1949 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. B1v He must be running on the letter, and abusing the Queenes English without pittie or mercie. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 81 He was pretty far overcome by the Champaign, for he clipped the Queen's English. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 636/2 ‘On’ yesterday, (another Southern emendation of the Queen's English, which is funny enough,) I was so unfortunate [etc.]. 1867 F. S. Cozzens Sayings 82 In fact, that arbitrary style of speaking which is commonly known as the Queen's English. 1885 Punch 4 July 5/2 (heading) The Premier's Primer; or Queen's English as she is wrote. 1902 F. Hume Fever of Life 146 I! Oh, how can you? I speak the Queen's English. 1991 K. Waterhouse English our English p. xvii The more slipshod English in circulation, the wider the assumption that it doesn't matter any more, that the Queen's English is by now the quaint preserve of pedants. 2006 PC Gamer Apr. 79/1 This doesn't mean that the cast of characters suddenly speak the Queen's English with cut-glass accents and quote Shakespeare. < as lemmas |
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