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99 – Skeptical Kid

There’s a scene in the movieMy Fair Lady when a lower-class flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, is being taught to speak the “King’s English” by an upper-class Englishman, Professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist who has appointed himself her speech instructor. Professor Higgins requires her to repeat over and over after him, “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.” When, after many repetitions,Read more…