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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: The Tune-Questionaire
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:03:59 GMT
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In article <40pvhb$bh@bsdi002.britain.eu.net>, Paul Sampson
<paul.sampson@octacon.co.uk> wrote:

> rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) wrote:
> 
> [ >8 ]
> 
> >Daniel Jones was the Father of the standard IPA representation for RP.
> >Also the inspiration for Henry Higgins.
> 
> I always believed it was Henry Sweet, the turn of the century 
> 'Anglo-Saxon' (i.e. OE) expert, teacher, dictionary writer etc
> who was the inspiration for Henry Higgins.
> 

I read the claim that it was Jones in a ?New York Times? piece on
Shaw a few years ago.  Claimed Shaw and Jones worked together on 
a BBC committee that decided the "correct" Engish mangling of
foreign words and names, or some such.  Don't remember the date
this is alleged to have occurred, circa 1930-35?  Perhaps earlier?
When was the BBC put together?  Maybe the author made it
up, thinking it plausible.  When was Pygmalion written?

-- 
R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
