I can talk
the Queen's English (God bless the Queen!), and that's more than most of the people about here can do.
The Woman in White
It may raise some eyebrows but the Essex twang has been rated the sexiest across the UK, in the list put together by Big 7 Travel, followed by Northern Irish, Glaswegian and
the Queen's English.
Accents among UK's sexiest
He's better known for speaking
the Queen's English but the Prince of Wales on Wednesday tried out some words of Pidgin as he visited Nigeria's commercial capital.
'How you dey?' ...Prince Charles speaks Pidgin
But not only were their apostrophes all over the shop (it is
the Queen's English, but the rest of the family don't want you to mutilate it either), but their offer of "British Airways Royal Wedding Celebrations -- Lounge access for ALL Megan's and Harry's!" also managed to spell the bride-to-be's name wrong.
The Spin
During the last decade, and especially post-Brexit, some immigrants have been killed, told to "leave our country", "why don't you speak
the Queen's English?", immigrant bashing, etc.
Is it any wonder that migrants are leaving?
But when, on very odd occasions, I arrived casually dressed to deliver a sample of the my company's products, the greeting was more like "What do you want, you scruff?" It is, perhaps, easy to understand why people are impressed by
the Queen's English but quite why the Yorkshire accent is considered to show more intelligence than the Brummie accent is beyond me.
'Intelligent' Yorkshire accent is a puzzler
Throop said: "They love
the Queen's English - the British accent."
PEPPA'S $1BN PIGGY BANK; CITY DESK
"They consulted with palace officials whose initial reaction was that the card would be in
the Queen's English. But after contacting the Welsh Language Commissioner's office they agreed to send the card in Welsh."
100TH BIRTHDAY CARD FROM THE QUEEN... IN WELSH
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Obsessed with speaKing and writing
the Queen's English, she would thinK nothing of posting bacK to a mortified young woman her Kindly sent letter ringed with red underlining.
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John Shibley and Thomas Pink of LSSU curate the "List of Words Banished From
the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness."
Curating gets grating: forced retirement?
The marvellous wordsmith Ogden Nash said that every time he needed a particular word, he made one up to fit the rhyme: "A panther is a leopard, who hasn't been peppered, If you see a panther crouch, prepare to say ouch, if called by a panther, don't anther." No, not
the Queen's English, then neither was Sarah Palin's "refudiate" but the meaning was readily understood, and isn't that the essence of communication.
Remember 'fun'?
Admittedly
the Queen's English Society does not at present have the prestige of the Academie Francais - or even the OED - but a growing membership will increase its influence.
Defence of our language; Views of the North
London, June 5 ( ANI ):
The Queen's English society has announced that it will cease to exist at the end of this month as no one cares about speaking proper English language anymore.
Queen's English society to close as too few people care about grammar
To mark the Queen's 60-year reign, the company released
the Queen's English, a new language module for the app.
An app that lets you text like the Queen