: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 #
:10:35
# 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! #
:10:45
# 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 #
:11:29
# The Scotch and the Irish
leave you close to tears #
:11:32
# There even are places
where English completely disappears #
:11:37
# 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 #