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I like the parody option.</div>
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<div class="PlainText" style=""><font face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="3" style="">Vara Neverow<br>
Department of English<br>
Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
203-392-6717<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 22, 2020 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "Mrs. Dalloway" crux</font>
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<div><span style="font-family:; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-transform:none; float:none; color:; text-align:justify; orphans:2; widows:2; display:inline!important; letter-spacing:normal; text-indent:0px; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:13.6pt; background-color:#faebd7">Edgar
J. Watkiss, with his roll of lead piping round his arm, said audibly, humorously of course: "The Proime Minister's kyar."</font></font></span></div>
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<div>Leaving aside the ramifications and peculiarities of his name, what is his accent? This has subconsciously bothered me for years. It has been suggested that it is Irish. “Proime” sounds Southern Irish; alternatively, very Birmingham to me. Is “kyar”
Irish? It doesn’t sound like any accent I can readily think of. </div>
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<div>Woolf wrote in “Memories of a Working Women’s Guild” (1930):</div>
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<div>“to deride ladies and to imitate, as some of the speakers did,</div>
<div>their mincing speech and little knowledge of what it pleases them to</div>
<div>call ‘reality’ is not merely bad manners, but it gives away the whole</div>
<div>purpose of the Congress, for if it is better to be a working woman</div>
<div>by all means let them remain so and not claim their right to undergo</div>
<div>the contamination of wealth and comfort.” (E5 182)</div>
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<div>If he says it “humorously”, then is he perhaps parodying upper-class speech?</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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