king's English

the king's English (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of King's English.
   • 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XIII, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley;  […], →OCLC, page 184:

     "Spake it out, man," exclaimed the landlady; "spake it out in king's English; what for should ye be talking Indian in a room full of christian folks […]?["]

   • 1919 (date written), Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Efficiency Expert”, in Argosy All-Story Weekly, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Company, published October 1921, →OCLC; republished as “In Again—Out Again”, in The Efficiency Expert, New York, N.Y.: Charter Books, Charter Communications, 1966, →OCLC, part 2, page 102:

     I venture to say that in a fifteen-minute conversation he would commit more horrible crimes against the king's English than even that new stable-boy of yours.