(chiefly with the) the English language regarded as under the guardianship of the King of England; (hence) standard or correct English, usually…
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| 释义 | the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard (12) King's English1553 (chiefly with the) the English language regarded as under the guardianship of the King of England; (hence) standard or correct English, usually… king's languagea1566 the English language; = King's English n. Queen's English1592 (usually with the) the English language regarded as under the guardianship of the Queen of England; (hence) standard or correct English, usually… received pronunciation?1710 The most commonly accepted or standard form of pronunciation; spec. the standard, most regionally neutral form of spoken British English… Standard English1806 Designating a language variety of a country or other linguistic area which is by convention generally considered the most correct and acceptable… Southern English1860 With modifying word, as North English, Southern English, etc. Cf. sense B. 2b. World English1888 An international variety of English regarded as standard or acceptable wherever it is spoken in the world; (also) the fundamental features of such… RP1889 = received pronunciation, n. Modified Standard English1913 (more fully Modified Standard English) (H. C. Wyld's name for) regional and other varieties of Standard English; opposed to Received Standard. Received Standard1913 (H. C. Wyld's name for) the variety of a language which is most widely accepted and used as a standard (standard, n. 23) in any specified country… B.B.C. English1928 standard English as maintained by B.B.C. announcers; so B.B.C. pronunciation, etc. Oldspeak1949 In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four: the name used for ordinary English, as opposed to the artificial version Newspeak (cf. Newspeak, n.… |
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