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Re: Harlow vs. Monroe
There is a good reason! Jean Harlow, all platinum-blonde and salacious, met British aristocrat Margot Asquith and pronounced her name mar-got. And without blinking, Margot Asquith corrected her: "The t is silent, as in Harlow", which has to be the most sophisticated put-down in Anglophone history.
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