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ContentsIntroduction	Mr Punch tries to helpWhy then?	Elocution Walker Provincial peculiarities Poor letter H	- upstairs and downstairs Going too far The demand for elocution	Spelling out H Spelling bees Cockney vowels Keb, sir? Vowel washing Ambiguities	Posh pronunciation Personal intewest Scots pronunciation The wh- problem Dr Johnson on the Scots accent  Inoffensive Boswell Pronouncing place-names Underground pronunciations  Law and Lindley Murray Pronouncing surnamesActors' pronunciation American pronunciation Taking Cockney seriously? Leaving Walker behindPicture Credits

David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject, as revealed in the pages of the satirical magazine, &#39;Punch&#39;. Richly illustrated, this is a fascinating and highly entertaining insight into our ongoing amusement and prejudice at how we speak.

We are not amused - victorian views on pronunciation as told in the pages o