Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The King's Speech

In the film The King's Speech (about George VI's fight to cure or control his stutter), one of the exercises given to the king by Lionel Logue, his speech therapist, goes as follows. "Let's go gathering healthy heather with the gay brigade of grand dragoons".
How things have changed since then! I mean, who has heard of a dragoon today?

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