The King's English
RESENTING one’s humble duty to His Majesty, one may thank him not only for the sentiments of his Christmas broadcast, but for the pure King’s English «im which it was couched, and the accent-less English in which it was spoken. His message
handled the simple and the complexhis own domestic affairs and those of the Commonwealth -with equal ease, and in the words that. touched mind and heart. there! was both economy and grace. One
little point of style particularly struck me. Referring to the distressing decision he had to make about his tour, His Majesty said he had taken the advice of "my doctors." He did not say "my medical advisers." Public men and newspapers please note.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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121The King's English New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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