My Fair Lady
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Simple phonetics. The science of speech.
That's my profession. Also my hobby.

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Anyone can spot an Irishman
or a Yorkshireman by his brogue...

:09:09
...but I can place a man within six miles.
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I can place 'im within two miles in London.
Sometimes within two streets.

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Ought to be ashamed of 'imself,
unmanly coward.

:09:17
- Is there a living in that?
- Oh, yes.

:09:19
Let him mind his own business
and leave a poor girl alone.

:09:23
Cease this detestable
boohooing instantly...

:09:25
...or else seek the shelter
of some other place of worship!

:09:29
I have a right to be here if I like,
same as you!

:09:32
A woman who utters such disgusting,
depressing noises...

:09:35
...has no right to be anywhere,
no right to live.

:09:37
Remember, you're a human with a soul...
:09:39
...and the divine gift of articulate speech.
:09:42
Your native language is the language
of Shakespeare and...

:09:45
...Milton and the Bible. Don't sit there
crooning like a bilious pigeon.

:09:51
"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters
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"Condemned by every syllable she utters
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"By right she should be taken out and hung
:10:00
"For the cold-blooded murder
of the English tongue"

:10:05
Heavens, what a sound!
:10:07
"This is what the British population
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"Calls an elementary education"
:10:12
Come, sir, I think you've picked
a poor example.

:10:15
Did I?
:10:17
"Hear them down in Soho Square
Dropping H's everywhere

:10:21
"Speaking English any way they like
:10:24
"Hey, you, sir, did you go to school?
:10:26
"What ya tike me for, a fool?
:10:27
"No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'
:10:31
"Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse

:10:34
"I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
:10:38
"Chickens cackling in a barn
Just like this one

:10:41
"Garn!
:10:43
"Garn!
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"I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
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"It's 'aoow' and 'garn'
that keep her in her place

:10:51
"Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
:10:55
"Why can't the English
teach their children how to speak?

:10:58
"This verbal class distinction
by now should be antique


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