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‘Enry ‘Iggins, Tiffany in Calcutta, and my Cousins
Down the Road
There
even are places where English completely disappears -
Why,
in America they haven't used it for years!
-Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
California and council flats, aye, there’s the nexus
Great Britain taught the world English right and proper
But in hearing my cousins from Caney Head, Texas
I conclude that the Empire has come a cropper!
