- He was regarded as the world's foremost phonetician, a scholar who studies the acoustics and physiology of speech.
- Was hired by director George Cukor to teach Rex Harrison how to behave like an Edwardian-era phonetician for his role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964).
- He was returning from a field trip in India at age 80 when he had a stroke in London, England. He was heading home to Aliso Viejo, California where he lived. He died from the stroke on January 24, 2006.
- He, not Rex Harrison, made the vowel sounds heard on Henry Higgins's phonograph record in My Fair Lady (1964).
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