My Fair Lady: “Why Can’t the English Learn to Speak?”
Eivind Solfjell · 6 min · 2011 · YouTube title: My Fair Lady "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak"
Why it's here
Cited as the classic illustration of accent, class and prejudice in how people speak.
What it covers
A scene from My Fair Lady in which Professor Higgins meets Colonel Pickering and Doolittle, singing about how the English fail to speak their own language properly. It has English subtitles.