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To the Manor Born: Choose Your Words Carefully 3

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Friday, 3 April 2015. Choose Your Words Carefully 3. I frequently hear friends, students, colleagues, teachers and parents talk about 'rough' or 'common' accents. Or correcting school kids out of their accents because it sounds 'ignorant' and it's not 'proper' English. A university lecturer in the Daily Telegraph explains how her regional accent draws ridicule in academia, Jan 2015 ). Kingsley Amis, The King’s English. Georgette Heyer, writing in ...

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To the Manor Born: Gentrification 6

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Thursday, 7 May 2015. Stoke Newington becomes the Cotswolds. Some time soon, London will be nothing but a playground for the wealthy that doubles up as a tourist attraction. Bryony Gordon DT Dec 2014). It was a lot more upmarket than where we lived. Is France the new Tonbridge Wells? I now dread readers' letters that end with words like "Aix" or "Rochefort-en-Terre" the most. Overheard in Weybridge: “They’re opening a Morrison’s? There's always so...

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To the Manor Born: You Are What You Eat 6

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Saturday, 4 April 2015. You Are What You Eat 6. For anyone too afraid to ask where the quinoa is in case they say it wrong, it's ‘keen-wah’ and it’s in the rice aisle. Dining room furnishings have gone the way of dining rooms. (Flog It! Dinner-parties and dining rooms are a thing of the past. I can't believe it! Where do people eat? David Barby on Flog It! Jemima Lewis, Daily Telegraph 2014). Henry Dimbleby, owner of the Leon café chain). Mock duc...

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To the Manor Born: July 2014

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Thursday, 31 July 2014. Can I Get a Latte? In cities as far apart as Glasgow, Manchester and London, respectable citizens have been producing guns from bags and from under coats and fatally shooting office workers, tourists and students. Using the formula “Can I get a latte? 8221; rather than “Could I have.” or “May I have.”. But with most of its defenders in prison or Broadmoor for life or a very long time, what will happen to British culture?

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To the Manor Born: May 2015

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Come Into the Garden Again. 8220;Cut out all affectations. Such as small bridges. human figures, china animals, glass ornaments, model houses, windmills etc.” advised the London Gardens Society of the 1930s. When bedding plants (huge beds of one colour) slipped from Queen Victoria's house Osborne to public parks, they became “vulgar and garish”. Beautiful modernist houses (like Farnsworth House) are always in woods. Surely ...

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To the Manor Born: April 2015

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Monday, 27 April 2015. Everything in the environment I grew up in seemed to suggest that making a fuss would be a bad idea. Washington Post on reporting rape). That's what you get from middle-class conformity. That crime victims are told "not to make a fuss". M v Aufschnaiter ‏@mva 1000). It's a shame but most ppl in the UK are snobs would hate to be thought of as working class. I love being told people can't be working class. Aspiring to be a hig...

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To the Manor Born: December 2014

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Wednesday, 24 December 2014. Choose Your Words Carefully 2. What a drag it is gettin' old. Hippy Sloanes used to call practically everything “ draggy. In the 60s Upwards and Weybridges were utterly shocked. By the Beatles’ song She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah. We don’t say “yeah”! After that, practically every pop song had a “yeah” in it. The middle classes survived. And now Prince William says wahldlife and terrrists. Ben and David Crystal (actor/ph...

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To the Manor Born: May 2014

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Sunday, 18 May 2014. Snobbery in Love, Nina. Nina Stibbe's book Love, Nina. Purports to be a collection of letters she wrote her sister while working for a literary lady (MK) in grand Gloucester Crescent in the 80s. The funniest parts are about the snobbery shown by her employer (and others). Of course MK is an Upward. MK looked at the ceiling. Which in her language means “idiot”). Or seems to care. Or man, come to think of it). You can’t ch...

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To the Manor Born: Classy Sports and Pastimes 2

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Monday, 6 April 2015. Classy Sports and Pastimes 2. Sick of this post-Olympic meme about how wonderful athletes etc are compared to footballers. Assumption behind it seems to be that working class people are corrupted by money, footballers as undeserving rich. Not like wonderful Olympians who do it for the love of sport and because they are so hard working and dedicated. Mark Fisher ‏@kpunk99). At Alexandra Palace like all their friends. Upwards n...

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To the Manor Born: April 2014

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To the Manor Born. A blog about the English class system. Sunday, 27 April 2014. We've had to divide the cafe into different regions of China, because they don't want to sit with each other. Staff member of Danish auction house catering to Chinese fur buyers). Only posh people get away with wearing salmon pink trousers. Only posh people have underfloor heating and olive dishes. You don't expect farm labourers to have nerves, do you? I knew clever classmates in South Wales who deliberately flunked. As a w...