Teenagent and kingsmen4/1/2023 ![]() I don't dislike the idea of doing a prequel film but I thought the franchise would be better suited to finishing up the Harry/Eggsy story first before going into spin off and prequel territory. But from the moment The King's Man was announced I just couldn't understand why it was being made. I even enjoyed The Golden Circle, it's not perfect and nowhere near as good as the original but I still get a lot of enjoyment out of it. I remember being excited for it but I never expected to fall in love with it as much as I did and the film still holds up every time I rewatch it. A member of King's College, Cambridge (from 1803, which seems more than a little late since the college was founded in 1441)Īll of the above showing both the attributive and possessive forms derived from a royal association.Kingsman: The Secret Service was one of the biggest surprises in a cinema I've had in the last decade. ![]() ![]() A Loyalist in the American Revolution (from 1809, which seems a little late since the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 ending a brouhaha that started in 1765).The King's Majesty's Servants, a dramatic company under James I (from 1613).The OED (you'll have to check the paper supplement) does not distinguish between kingsman and King's man, and lists only non-military usages: Partridge notes that the nickname King's Men belongs to the 78th Regiment of Foot, formed in 1793, later (1881) the Seaforth Highlanders, a derivation not from their name but from their Gaelic motto Cuidich 'n Righ, help the king. I expect that it would be the membership that was prestigious, regardless of rank. The nickname kingsman is attested to by Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. So it's no surprise that its members became known as kingsman or that the regiment adopted the nickname for its lowest ranked NCO. Wikipedia informs us that the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was formed in 2004 from three regiments, one of which was the King's Regiment, which itself was formed in 1958 from two regiments, one of which was the King's Regiment, Liverpool, one of oldest infantry units in the British Army, formed in 1685. What is the difference in terms of nuance and meaning between kingsman and king's man? Is it a kind of neologism that suddenly became very popular when the movie was released? I am particularly interested in finding out how this word had been used in BrE and AmE before the movie was released. army, it doesn't sound very prestigious and honorable. What does kingsman mean exactly? If it means the lowest enlisted rank like private in the U.S. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment doesn't seem to be well known (at least to me) and there must be a reason why the word kingsman is not even listed in a major dictionary. Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the (military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's The meaning of kingsman is not even listed in Oxford Online Dictionary, Collins and Merriam-Webster and only Wiktionary has the following meaning: I thought about the difference in their nuance and meaning between kingsman and king's man especially after watching the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. I believe that such nouns have evolved into their current forms as ' (apostrophe) was not absolutely necessary. When you look up the word kingsman in Wiktionary, its etymology shows that it is compounded with king + s + man in the same way as Klansman (Ku Klux Klan's member), huntsman (a man who hunts) or kinsman (a man who is one of a person's blood relations).
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