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My Fair Lady "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak"
Eivind Solfjell
A scene from My Fair Lady in which Professor Higgins meets Colonel Pickering and Doolittle, singing about how the English fail to speak their own language properly. It has English subtitles.
Cited as the classic illustration of accent, class and prejudice in how people speak.
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