Using the Vernacular
Eliot's first version reads thus,
"When Lil's husband was coming back out of the Transport Corps..."(V. Eliot 13)
This rather bulky sentence was changed by Vivian Eliot to read, "got demobbed." T. S. Eliot probably enacted this change to make the speaker sound as if she had more of the vernacular Cockney accent that the pubgoers use in this section.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
"When Lil's husband was coming back out of the Transport Corps..."(V. Eliot 13)
This rather bulky sentence was changed by Vivian Eliot to read, "got demobbed." T. S. Eliot probably enacted this change to make the speaker sound as if she had more of the vernacular Cockney accent that the pubgoers use in this section.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting