Pygmalion | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Preface to Pygmalion. A Professor of Phonetics

1. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

The English can't speak their own language properly.

2. What is a problem with the English language, according to Shaw?

It is not spelled the way it should be pronounced.

3. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?

The vowels and some consonants.

4. On what basis do some English people despise others?

Their accents or dialects of English.

5. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?

An energetic enthusiast who supports language reform.

6. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?

In the 1870s.

7. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.

8. Who is Tito Pagliardini?

A phonetics expert.

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