the rain in spain stays mainly in the plain

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A phrase used to demonstrate differences of pronunciation in various English dialects of the sound represented by the digraph ai
the rain in spain stays mainly in the plain

    Hyphenation

    the rain in Spain stays main·ly in the plain

    Turkish pronunciation

    dhi reyn în speyn steyz meynli în dhi pleyn

    Pronunciation

    /ᴛʜē ˈrān ən ˈspān ˈstāz ˈmānlē ən ᴛʜē ˈplān/ /ðiː ˈreɪn ɪn ˈspeɪn ˈsteɪz ˈmeɪnliː ɪn ðiː ˈpleɪn/

    Etymology

    () Coined by Gabriel Pascal for the 1938 screenplay of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Popularised by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1956 musical adaption of the scene, from the 1964 musical film "My Fair Lady".
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