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Originally Posted by HarryT
He isn't German. He's a Cockney - a Londoner  . Dickens spent hours walking around London, and tried to accurately reproduce the speech he heard, particularly that of working people such as Mr Weller in the above passage, who is a stagecoach driver (a profession which disappeared in Dickens's own lifetime). |
Interesting.
Is it possible in reproducing the speech, Mr Dickens had originally run across an immigrant stagecoach driver?
Or not knowing English customs worth a darn, was stagecoach driving a lower, middle or higher class job?
Now one might argue that while the stagecoach has disappeared, drivers of others still exist.
The vehicles just changed.
I know the stagecoach here in America was largely replaced by the railroad.