Evolution of the Queen's English

[sinulord]

Originally Posted by BeatrixFan

Well, apparantly "The Queen's English" refers to Queen Victoria's English. Because she had a German accent, she over-annunciated words such as "Axe" making them sound like "Ix". The court didn't want the Queen to sound unusual so they all took on that style of speaking which was then adopted by her descendants and spread to the Upper Classes, the BBC etc. Whether it's true or not I'm not sure.

Very interesting, thanks.

[trinny]

Originally Posted by Onassis Line

The funniest thing is the image of Princes Harry and William teaching the Queen Mother to do the Ali G finger click and say "Booyakasha" or what ever the saying was. I remember watching them confess to doing so

Oh that was funny!!

This is my memory of it but I could have got it a bit wrong:

It was in a TV show about the late Queen Mother: the members of the family talking about their memories of her ...the boys were saying what a cool Great Grandmother she was, they had been telling her about Ali G and how fantastic they thought he was and they taught her how to do the finger click (as you've said) and to say "Respect!" ...

they all went into luncheon and at the end of the meal she leaned back in her chair, said to her butler (I guess) "Ahhh So-and-So that was very nice ... *does finger click* RESPECT!"

The whole room fell apart laughing!



SORRY TO GO OFF TOPIC, by the way!

[WindsorIII]

Originally Posted by trinny

Oh that was funny!!

This is my memory of it but I could have got it a bit wrong:

It was in a TV show about the late Queen Mother: the members of the family talking about their memories of her ...the boys were saying what a cool Great Grandmother she was, they had been telling her about Ali G and how fantastic they thought he was and they taught her how to do the finger click (as you've said) and to say "Respect!" ...

they all went into luncheon and at the end of the meal she leaned back in her chair, said to her butler (I guess) "Ahhh So-and-So that was very nice ... *does finger click* RESPECT!"

The whole room fell apart laughing!



SORRY TO GO OFF TOPIC, by the way!

Very funny! I would have loved to have seen that

[zembla]

Originally Posted by trinny

Oh that was funny!!

This is my memory of it but I could have got it a bit wrong:

It was in a TV show about the late Queen Mother: the members of the family talking about their memories of her ...the boys were saying what a cool Great Grandmother she was, they had been telling her about Ali G and how fantastic they thought he was and they taught her how to do the finger click (as you've said) and to say "Respect!" ...

they all went into luncheon and at the end of the meal she leaned back in her chair, said to her butler (I guess) "Ahhh So-and-So that was very nice ... *does finger click* RESPECT!"

The whole room fell apart laughing!



SORRY TO GO OFF TOPIC, by the way!

That's so cute...