HANNA ZIADY: UK under Johnson bears uncanny resemblance to divided society of Eliza Doolittle
British society is more diverse and integrated but the class divide remains
05 August 2019 - 05:04
In the 1960s musical My Fair Lady, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes it upon himself to transform flower seller Eliza Doolittle into someone who can pass for a member of British high society.
A large part of what Higgins must do is kill Doolittle’s Cockney accent and replace it with one that resembles “received pronunciation” (think BBC English)...
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