Word: phoneticist
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...Pygmalion: His street-urchin heroine Eliza Doolittle is unable to better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She’s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...
...middle class that needed to be changed, not suddenly but through a "gradual" permeation of socialist ideas and institutions in their capitalist midsts. His dubious hero in Pygmalion is exactly the kind of man who would not be receptive to tactics such as these: a leading London phoneticist determined to translate a flower girl into a "duchess" so effectively that, he wagers, no one will be able to tell. But Eliza, the Cinderella duchess, is not "fit for" either class. Not totally accepted by those of her new station in life, totally unable to return to the life...
...Australian who has managed to avoid speaking Strine himself, but knows just how confusing it can be. As a Sydney court stenographer, Bates has to decipher the lingo and convert it into shorthand symbols at the rate of 200 words a minute. "Thank God I'm a professional phoneticist," he says. "Otherwise, I wouldn't know what the hell half the witnesses and lawyers I have to record were talking about most of the time...
Divorced. Rex Harrison, 48, lean, British-born actor who plays Phoneticist 'Enry 'Iggins in the musicomedy My Fair Lady; by brunette Actress Lilli Palmer, 42, who co-starred with him (1950-51) on Broadway in Bell, Book and Candle; after 14 years of marriage, one son, three days after Harrison took a four-week leave from Lady, journeyed to Hollywood to join his good friend. Cinemactress Kay (Genevieve) Kendall; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
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