References
- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, 2nd ed., in Androcles and the Lion. Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable, 1916, pp. 97–205. All references to the text will be to this edition (which is the first to contain the Preface, pp. 99–103).
- Sweet died on April 30, 1912, after a long period of illness. For biographical details of Sweet, see C. L. Wrenn, ‘Henry Sweet”, TPS 1946, pp. 177–201, rpt. in Thomas A. Sebeok, ed., Portraits of Linguists, Vol. I, Indiana Univ. Press, 1966; and Daniel Jones, “Henry Sweet”, Le Maitre Phonétique. 26 (1912), pp. 97–99.
- A collection of Shaw's linguistic polemics is to be found in Abraham Taubner, ed., George Bernard Shaw on Language, London, Peter Owen, 1965.
- For Sweet's character and behaviour in his later years, see Michael MacMahon, “Henry Sweet as a novelist”, HSS Newsletter, 2 (1985), pp. 10–14.
- Wrenn, p. 529.
- For further biographical detail of Jones, see A. C. Gimson, “Daniel Jones”, Le Maitre Phonétique, 3. 46 (1968), pp. 2–6; also, Beverley Collins, “Daniel Jones (1881–1967): his life and contribution to phonetics”, in Arne Juul and Hans Frede Nielsen, eds, Our Changing Speech: Two BBC Talks by Daniel Jones. Copenhagen; National Institute for Educational Media, 1985, pp. 35–55.
- Daniel Jones, Letter to L. van Buuren, December 24, 1964. I wish to thank Luuk van Buuren for allowing me to inspect and quote from this correspondence.
- Robert Bridges, “On the present state of English pronunciation”, in A. C. Bradley, ed., Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910. Revised and expanded as: Robert Bridges, On the Present State of English Pronunciation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
- Irving Wardle, “The plays”, in Michael Holroyd, ed., The Genius of Shaw, New York: Holt Rinehart Wilson, 1979, p. 161.
- The English law of this period, and indeed for many years after, was notoriously unfair to authors. Graham Greene has given some idea of the frequency of libel suits and the danger these posed to the successful author. See Graham Greene, Ways of Escape, London: Bodley Head, 1980, pp. 27–29, 6064.
- Jean Overton Fuller, letter, The Observer, January 15, 1978. Miss Fuller has confirmed the content of her letter to me in a tape recorded interview (October 31, 1983) during which she also made clear that she does not believe that the character of Higgins is based directly on Jones, as her letter might have implied.
- Departmental Report, 1913–14. A similar apparatus is illustrated in P. J. Rousselot, Principes de Phonétique Expérimentale, 2nd ed., Parisi Didier, 1924, Vol. I, p. 172.
- Fuller.
- Ibid.
- Peter Tompkins, ed., Shaw and Molly Tompkins: in Their Own Words, London: Anthony Blond, 1961, p. 23.
- Ibid. p. 61.
- Daniel Jones, English Pronouncing Dictionary, 13th ed., London: Dent, 1967, p. xvii n. 2.
- George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Molly Tompkins, 27 December 1921, in Peter Tompkins, ed., To a Young Actress: the Letters of Bernard Shaw and Molly Tompkins. London: Constable, 1960, p. 11.
- Fuller.
- 2nd International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, London, July 22–26, 1935, programme, p. 21.
- Daniel Jones, “Applications of Phonetics”, public lecture, University College, London, 29 October 1947.