: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
:10:10
"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!
:10:44
"I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
:10:48
"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
:11:02
"If you spoke as she does, sir,
instead of the way you do
:11:05
"Why, you might be selling flowers, too"
:11:08
I beg your pardon.
:11:09
"An Englishman's way of speaking
absolutely classifies him
:11:13
"The moment he talks he makes
some other Englishman despise him
:11:16
"One common language
I'm afraid we'll never get
:11:19
"Oh, why can't the English learn to...
:11:23
"...set a good example to people
whose English is painful to your ears
:11:28
"The Scotch and the Irish
leave you close to tears
:11:32
"There even are places
where English completely disappears
:11:36
"Why, in America
they haven't used it for years!
:11:40
"Why can't the English
teach their children how to speak?
:11:43
"Norwegians learn Norwegian,
the Greeks are taught their Greek
:11:47
"In France every Frenchman
knows his language from 'A' to 'Z'
:11:51
"The French don't care
what they do actually
:11:53
"As long as they pronounce it properly
:11:55
"Arabians learn Arabian
with the speed of summer lightning
:11:59
"The Hebrews learn it backwards
which is absolutely frightening