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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...
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...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.
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- Is there a living in that?
- Oh, yes.
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Let him mind his own business
and leave a poor girl alone.
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Cease this detestable
boohooing instantly...
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...or else seek the shelter
of some other place of worship!
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I have a right to be here if I like,
same as you!
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A woman who utters such disgusting,
depressing noises...
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...has no right to be anywhere,
no right to live.
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Remember, you're a human with a soul...
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...and the divine gift of articulate speech.
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Your native language is the language
of Shakespeare and...
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...Milton and the Bible. Don't sit there
crooning like a bilious pigeon.
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"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
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"For the cold-blooded murder
of the English tongue"
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Heavens, what a sound!
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"This is what the British population
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"Calls an elementary education"
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Come, sir, I think you've picked
a poor example.
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Did I?
:10:17
"Hear them down in Soho Square
Dropping H's everywhere
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"Speaking English any way they like
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"Hey, you, sir, did you go to school?
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"What ya tike me for, a fool?
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"No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'
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"Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse
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"I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
:10:38
"Chickens cackling in a barn
Just like this one
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"Garn!
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"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
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"Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
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"Why can't the English
teach their children how to speak?
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"This verbal class distinction
by now should be antique