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Queen Elizabeth's English: a response to Katie Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Extract

I may not be alone among readers of ET in finding Katie Wales' article ‘Royalese: the rise and fall of “The Queen's English’” (July 1994) frequently muddled, misleading, and inaccurate.

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Angles of Vision
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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