Preface
Shaw writes: 'It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.'
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From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The play's central thesis that English speech is the marker of class in Britain, and that mastering it can transform one's social destiny.
Act I
Higgins on phonetics as 'the science of speech... my profession; also my hobby.'
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