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King's English
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King's English (Poetry) 
The standard, pure or correct English speech or usage, also called "Queen's English."
Sidelight: The origin of the term is uncertain, but it appeared in Wilson's Arte of Rhetoricke, in 1553 and in Act 1, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in about 1597:
Mistress Quickly:
What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
and see body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
God's patience and the king's English'>if you can see my master, Master Doctor
Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
God's patience and the king's English.
(Contrast Solecism)
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