King’s English is a book on English usage and grammer. It was written by the Fowler brothers, Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler, and published in 1906, and thus pre-dates by 20 years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis’s death in 1918.

The King;s English is like a dictionary to the modern English today. It consist of long articles on general topics like vocabulary, syntax and punctuation.

Examples: Punctuation                 

apostrophe ( ’ ‘ )
brackets (( )), ([ ]), ({ }), (< >)
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― )
ellipsis ( …, … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
guillemets ( « » )
hyphen ( -, ‐ )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/stroke ( / )
solidus ( ⁄ )

The King’s English is like an encyclopedia of modrn english. The United States will be using the old english or other language without the help of the King’s English.