By Jeff Horner, Ed.D. Lady Boxington: “Whatever does it mean?” – My Fair Lady, 1964 In the classic musical film, My Fair Lady, Audrey Hepburn portrays Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower seller taught to speak with proper, upper-class English diction. Fortunately for the sake of the comedy of the film, her first attempt to enter polite society fails miserably as she perfectly enunciated words are merely highly polished cockney-style gossip. After using a number of idiomatic expressions […]