My Fair Lady – Commonplace Fun Facts

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By Commonplace Fun Facts on December 30, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

The English language is amazing. It is also weird. Whether you grew up with English as your first language or you are picking it up later in life, you will never exhaust […]

Try To Tame The Tongue To Test Testy Tongue Twisters

By Commonplace Fun Facts on September 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Tongue-twisters are phrases designed to trip up even the most skilled orator. As we already reported in an earlier article, “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod” is said by speech experts to […]

You Are Probably Hearing an Imposter When You Hear a Bald Eagle

By Commonplace Fun Facts on October 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Fans of the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s and 1960s are frequently surprised to learn that the voices of their favorite actresses are someone else’s. If you listen carefully, you will notice […]

If I Could Finish This Song, It Would Be Loverly

By Commonplace Fun Facts on November 17, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

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Alan Jay Lerner took two weeks to write the last line of “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” for the play My Fair Lady. The concluding words are, “Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.”