Pygmalion

by Bernard Shaw · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 2,216 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Comedy plays · Flower vending — Drama · Linguistics teachers — Drama · London (England) — Drama

Words worth knowing: slavish · legible · taxicab · hearthrug · presentable · script · pretentious · chintz

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as “can’t”, “wouldn’t” and “he’d” were omitted, to read as “cant”, “wouldnt”, and “hed”.

This etext edition restores the omitted apostrophes.

PYGMALION BERNARD SHAW 1912 PREFACE TO PYGMALION.

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