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Thread #28839   Message #361913
Posted By: Jim Dixon
22-Dec-00 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Queen no longer speaks Queen's English'
Subject: RE: BS: 'Queen no longer speaks Queen's English'
Here's a new Mudcat challenge, playwriting division:

Rewrite Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady) with Higgins replaced by a computer! And Liza Doolittle replaced by Queen Elizabeth, trying to get her old accent back! Add a generational switch, and you could have Prince Charles singing "Oi'm Gettin Married in na Moarning!" and ranting about middle-class morality!

OK, you don't have to write the whole play. Just suggest a few plot developments, or a few speeches.