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In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.
Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
" Lerner said he knew the lyric used incorrect grammar for the sake of a rhyme.
He was later approached about it by another famous lyricist:
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