To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Jack Lynch
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English is a very ancient language. It originated in ancient Anglo-Saxon England. This is the language that Shakespeare wrote in, the language of Dickens and Chaucer, and the language that made Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" one of the world's most famous novels.

Source: The Lexicographers Dilemma: The Evolution Of Proper English, From Shakespeare To South Park

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