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Among speakers of English worldwide, either as a native or an acquired language, RP is the most highly regarded accent--indeed, some might well regard RP as standing for `Revealed Pronunciation'--so it behooves one to pay attention to Professor Honey's comments about it, favorable and adverse.
It ill behooves us to criticize its emptiness, for we all utter Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodby, How are you?, Hello , and numerous other salutational and valedictory remarks in the course of the day.
The most common American sense of in the bag is `completed, done, consummated,' and, while it ill behooves one to state categorically that `ruined, botched' is not a viable definition, I have never encountered the expression used in that sense on either side of the Atlantic.
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as