:12:02
# Use proper English,
you're regarded as a freak #
:12:06
# Oh, why can't the English #
:12:09
# Why can't the English learn to speak? ##
:12:21
Thank you.
:12:23
See this creature
with her curbstone English...
:12:25
...that'll keep her in the gutter
till the end of her days?
:12:27
In six months I could pass her off
as a duchess at an Embassy Ball.
:12:32
I could get her a job as a lady's maid
or a shop assistant...
:12:35
...which requires better English.
:12:36
What's that you say?
:12:38
Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf!
:12:41
You disgrace to the noble architecture
of these columns!
:12:44
You incarnate insult
to the English language!
:12:47
I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba.
:12:52
You don't believe that, Capt'n?
:12:54
Anything's possible.
I, myself, am a student of Indian dialects.
:12:58
Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering,
the author of "Spoken Sanskrit"?
:13:03
I am Colonel Pickering. Who are you?
:13:05
I'm Henry Higgins, author of
Higgins' Universal Alphabet.
:13:08
I came from India to meet you!
:13:11
I was going to India to meet you!
:13:16
- Where are you staying?
- At the Carleton.
:13:18
No, you're not.
You're staying at 27 A Wimpole Street.
:13:21
You come with me.
We'll have a little jaw over supper.
:13:23
Indian dialects have always fascinated me.
:13:25
Buy a flower. I'm short for me lodgin'.
:13:27
Liar!
:13:28
You said you could change half a crown.
:13:31
You ought to be stuffed with nails,
you ought!
:13:34
Here, take the whole bloomin' basket
for a sixpence!
:13:41
A reminder.
:13:46
- How many are there actually?
- How many what?
:13:49
Indian dialects?
:13:50
No fewer than 147 distinct languages
are recorded as vernacular in India.