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Shavian 1. of, relating to, or like George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950), the Irish dramatist and critic, his works, ideas, etc. 2. an admirer of Shaw or his works How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This being an early Shavian work -- and one of his designated ``pleasant'' plays -- things are going to end on an up note. Despite the illogical, and patently irritating Johnson's "clumsy mandate," and the hitherto unsuccessful Shavian and other moves for simplified phonetic spelling, the enduring understanding is the requisite "confident familiarity" with acceptable spelling. In Broadway's My Fair Lady, that master lyricist Alan Jay Lerner posed the highly pertinent Shavian question: "Why don't the English teach their children how to speak? |
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