... It is the contrast between the Eynsford-Hills accent and Eliza's accent that makes the reader laugh as in the time when this play was first performs and written, around 1914, the audience would have been more used to hearing the Eynsford-Hills accent and so would have found Eliza's 'strange' accent very strange. For example: - The Flower Girl [Eliza]: Theres menners f'yer! Ta-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad. Mrs Higgins' 'At Home day' causes the audience, once again to see the Eynsford-Hills as humorous characters because of the way they stick rigidly to the etiquette that matches their social class position. The restricted topics of conversation such as health and weather makes the audience laugh because of the ridiculous restrictively of the conversation. The number of times 'how do you?' is said during the same scene is also humorous because it sounds so pathetic and ridiculous. Henry Higgins is also ...

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