Oh dear, Emma. What would Nanny think?
Wednesday 29th September 2010, 9:06AM BST.
Emma Thompson is gradually acquiring the status of a national treasure but it’s an awkward process, with two steps forward and one step back, writes Peter Rhodes.
She deserves to be heard on the subject of teenage language with all its grunting and y’knows and, well, like, innit.
Sadly, this crusader for better English spoiled things just a tad by telling a group of schoolgirls that if they spoke badly “you’re going to sound like a knob.”
Oh, dear. What would Nanny McPhee make of that?
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re tonights little upset over the way the Yanks pronounce schedule, I’d love to here you pronounce school.
All the best old un
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How exactly did she spoil things?
If it was ok for Chaucer and Shakespeare to slip in the odd swear word the surely it’s ok for Emma Thompson to do the same.
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