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...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...indistinct mustache. A few days later Sellers holds a private screening for some of the boys. "That's all for todye," he says briskly as the show concludes. "Nex' week we'll 'ave a prowgram uv eddikytional an' trynin' films, startin' wiv Rififi an' fullowed boi a discussion uv what we've learned. But first -gaow in an' get them jools...
...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
Linger longer wiv...
Ursula: Is zay angwy wiv me, Daddy...