ACT I
This character turns into a blueberry in Charlie and the Chocolate factory but is name of flowers that Eliza is selling during the opening scene of Pygmalion.
What are violets?
The day after the event with Higgins and Eliza, she goes to Higgins house in order to ask for these types of lessons.
What are speaking lessons?
Eliza mentions this word that was considered to be obscene and shocking for a lady to say at the time of the play.
What is the word bloody?
At the start of the Act IV, Pickering, Higgins and Eliza are exhausted from attending this glamorous event for the night.
What is the Ambassador's Ball/Ball/Dance?
This famous actress played Eliza in the popular 1964 musical, "My Fair Lady."
The weather event that brings all of the unlikely characters together in which they find shelter under the church portico.
What is a rain storm/rain/storm/thunder storm?
Mrs. Pearce has been a long standing member of the Higgins household, she holds this particular position there.
What is the housekeeper/maid?
At the beginning of Act III, Higgins, Pickering and Eliza arrive at this upper class society lady's place, in order to test out Eliza's speaking skills.
What is Mrs. Higgins' house/Higgins mother's house?
Eliza throws this fluffy footwear at Higgins when searching for them a second time.
What are slippers?
This iconic London landmark has 775 rooms with two guards at the gates and the queen inside the quaint residence.
What is Buckingham Palace?
A "copper's nark" usually helps out the police in this manner.
What is a police informant/snitch?
Eliza's father, Doolittle, goes to Higgins house as well in order to request this specific fund from him.
What is five pounds/money?
These two topics of discussion were instructed for Eliza to keep to as they are seen as safe conversation and would have prevented Eliza from making any faux pas.
What are Health and weather?
At the end of Act V a majority of the characters attend this joyous occasion that usually has rings and a cake.
What is Doolittle's wedding/wedding?
This field of study is known for the classification of speech sounds and also the field that Higgins specializes in.
What is phonetics?
The Flower Girl receives money from a passing patron and a bystander informs her that there is a nark writing down every word she is saying; she is fearful because she thinks she might be charged with this illicit act.
What is prostitution?
Mrs. Pearce requests that Higgins reframe from this type of language in front of Eliza in order for her to have respectable examples of manners.
What is swearing?
In Act III, Eliza brings up a topic about her aunt and a stolen straw hat; Eliza suspects that her aunt was "done in" that would mean a few things in today's language.
What is murdered/killed?
Act V, Higgins arrives at his mother's home in manner that is not usual for his character, this state can lead others to hysteria.
What is panic/worry/fearful?
Mary Shelley's classic gothic monster tale begins with a mad scientist named by this fear inducing name.
Who is Frankenstein?
Higgins, at times, calls Eliza by a particular mean name that started in Act I but the word can also be turned into sauerkraut.
What is a squashed cabbage leaf/cabbage?
Eliza is fearful of this event that that most people do on a daily bases which includes rinsing and repeating.
What is take a bath/shower?
On the night of the big event, Eliza does such an amazing job with her speech and manners that she gets mistaken with this noble group of people.
What is royalty/princess/duchess?
Act V, Doolittle has gone through a transformation like Eliza but despite is new monetary gains he is upset by all of the new conditions this part of society has.
What is the middle class/responsibilities/morals?
The ending of Pygmalion may have a few scratching their heads as the resolution is up for questions, however this French word means the final part of a play, movie or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
What is denouement?