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The Gainesville Theatre Alliance continues its 2022-23 season with George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, February 10-18 at Brenau University’s Hosch Theatre.

Joanna Buchan, 34, was just eight-years-old when the plastic Sprite bottle was dropped from a fishing boat off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in 1996 as part of a school project.

Doctor Joanna Buchan, now 34 and living in New South Wales, Australia, was on a fishing boat when she dropped a bottle in the sea for a school project off Peterhead in 1996.

The mid-Atlantic accent, which is now obsolete, wasn’t region-specific, and it was acquired, not natural. It was distinctive in that it was, as the name implies, a hybrid of American and British accents. Although the idea that it was developed to ensure that speakers could be understood broadcasters through available technology of the early 20th Century is one theory about its origins, more evidence suggests that it was developed and learned as a signifier of class, having been taught at elit...