King’s English标准英语

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Proper English，English as it should be spoken．Several English kings didn’t speak English，but this term has nevertheless been in use since the mid—sixteenth century．It was used by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor(1600)，and three centuries earlier Chaucer wrote“God save the king，that is lord of this language．”

意义如上所示。有好几个英国国王并不讲英语，但该词自16世纪中叶以来就一直在使用。莎士比亚在《温莎的风流娘们》(1600)中曾使用。在莎翁三个世纪前，乔叟就写道：“这一语言之主是上帝，而不是国王”。