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The Art of Words: May 2015
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The Art of Words. Ramblings about words, art, books, the media and Golden Age detective stories. Saturday, 30 May 2015. Movie Clichés (in quotes). Bumptious military types, disbelieving bureaucrats, and young and handsome earnest assistants. Imdb commenter on X the Unknown. It contains every single cliché known to boxing movies: the nervous novice,. Looking for one more shot at the 'big time', the anxious wife. Let's have a look at its DNA' she says looking down a microscope. The wise fool,. About how gr...
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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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The Art of Words: Resumé
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The Art of Words. Ramblings about words, art, books, the media and Golden Age detective stories. I have more than 20 years experience in magazines as a sub editor, researcher and writer. November 2009 – March 2012 Sub editor at The Week. March 2009 – November 2009 Freelance sub editor and writer at Time Magazine and The Week Magazine, 6th Floor, Compass House, 22 Redan Place, London W2 4SA I also worked shifts at the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Guardian and Wired magazine. 32-34 Broadwick Street, WC2.
