English people use this phrase to try to "correct" people's accents to speak what they like to call "proper" English by changing the way words in this sentence are pronounced.
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- A famous line from the song "The Rain in Spain" from the musical My Fair Lady, (music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner) published in 1956. In the musical, this was the phrase used to teach Eliza Doolittle how to speak proper English instead of using her Cockney accent.
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If you want to sound like an English person, repeat after me: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" and say it the way I just said it.
Submitted by TriplePurple on June 24, 2024
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