Philippines: King's English

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

But which king??????  What an interesting expression to use!

Anthea
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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu 
> [mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Harold Schiffman
> Sent: 11 January 2009 18:01
> To: lp
> Subject: Philippines: King's English
> 

> Philippine Daily Inquirer
> First Posted 00:15:00 01/11/2009
> 
> King's English
> 

> Perhaps confronted by Melanie Marquez and other Philippine 
> beauty queens and pretenders who, during question-and-answer 
> portions, add to the rich vocabulary of English by their 
> unwitting and very hilarious answers; and perhaps feeling 
> guilty and embarrassed because their children speak their 
> yaya's "Barok" English, some lawmakers now like to efface the 
> atrocious English around them, including their own, by 
> mandating that everyone speak the King's English. But this 
> gesture is at best aristocratic pretension.