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All I can recall is a conversation in "My Fair Lady" wherein Prof Higgins tells about another teacher who is from Carpathia and who is trying to trip up Elixa!
I remember hearing about Carpathia as a child but in reference to what I cannot say. Could it perhaps be one of those places that lost its identity during the sway of the USSR and has long since been submerged in another land or culture?
WAIT!
OED says Carpathia referes to Carpathos, an Island in the Aegean Sea then also says a mountain range in central and eastern Europe.
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Prof Higgins tells about another teacher who is from Carpathia and who is trying to trip up Elixa!I hadn't recalled that!  Higgins: Thank Heavens for Zoltan Karparthy. If he hadn't been there I'd have died of boredom. Yes, he was there, all right, up to his old tricks.Servant: Karparthy? That dreadful Hungarian? Was he there?Higgins: Yes, that blackguard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach;
He made it the devilish business of his
"To find out who this Miss Doolittle is."
Ev'ry time we looked around / There he was, that hairy hound / From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone, / Never have I ever known / A ruder pest.
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Dooo not forget to hang garlic at your window when you're in the Carpathian Mountains to keep away Dracula!
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...Karparthy? That dreadful Hungarian? Was he there?
I happened to see My Fair Lady on Broadway in March 1957, and the Hungarian Revolution had just occurred, and been quashed. For that nonce one line was changed: "Hungarian" became "Bulgarian", and in the song that followed Budapest (home of That Hairy Hound) moved a few miles and was called Bucharest.
Didn't rhyme nearly as well with "ruder pest" but greater considerations ruled.
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