European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse John Honey advocates teaching All the British to speak the Queen s English. In his Book does accent Metier the pygmalion Factor he attributes part of Margaret Thatcher s political Success to her intentional change in speech pattern from her original Lincolnshire dialect. The talk of Britain by Steve Lohr new York times Ohn Honey is a kind of real me. Latter Day Henry Higgins. Urging his countrymen la acknowledge thai speech accents arc lethal weapons in the English class War and to strike a. Blow for social equally by leaching everyone to the Queen s English George Bernard Shaw in 1912, made the definitive pronouncement on the English obsession with accents. In the preface to pygmalion Ito play on which the. Musical my fair tatty was based Shaw wrote. Ii is impossible Lor an englishman to open his Mouth without making another englishman hate or despise him hone a 55 year old eng can professor and linguistics expert. Picks up the theme with a vengeance in his new Book. Does accent Mattel the pygmalion Factor which has been Widel praised attacked Ana debated in Britain since it was published in february in recent weeks he has found himself in the unlikely folo of a no Rita Star appearing regularly on television and Tad id talk shows his Boot has been reviewed and Analysed by Viilu Aily every London newspaper and Magazine led by a Lavo Rable
