How They Silenced the Voice of Decency

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SO HER Majesty has at last given up and stopped speaking the Queen's English.

She was the last person-who did, and I have to say I'm sorry it's gone.

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How They Silenced the Voice of Decency

I can just remember when the precise, slightly strangled vowels of the British uppermiddle and military classes still had the upper hand.

We laugh now when Brief Encounter comes on TV and Celia Johnson talks lake thet.

But hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people really did, quite unselfc...

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