Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1915-1915
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...presence of the easily shocked. For instance, where the Christians are cheerfully assigning themselves to places on the Coliseum menu, and one gentleman announces that he is to be the mince pie. Probably, however, this is no more a burlesque on anachronism than to have Roman centurions speak cockney English, or the Roman dandles have all the characteristics of London fops. It might be argued that Shaw did this to make it quite understandable to the British mind. Satirically speaking, that is exactly his point...