"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:e2opvv0dsbt1avsb2qj0al0tiemr66u7ge@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:37:04 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
> <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >> >> >> >>And scones.  Don't forget the scones.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >Would you provide a pronounciation guide for the foreign
johnnies,
> >> >> >> >Jeff? There's a good chap.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> What, and provide them with one of the ultimate clues to
> >Britishness?
> >> >> >> I should jolly well think not.  Foreign johnnies must learn their
> >> >> >> place.
> >> >
> >> >On the one hand you *won't* provide a 'pronounciation' guide, but...
> >> >
> >> >> >She was a professional flutist and decent pianist and was playing
> >> >> >accompanying music at some auditions for a West End musical.
> >> >
> >> >> Flautist.
> >> >
> >> >you jump right in with a spelling guide! Bad form old chap!
> >> >
> >> Not at all.  One, the spelling, is the tradesman-like nuts and bolts,
> >> whilst the other, the pronunciation, is the style, character and
> >> essence - quite a different k of f.
> >
> >And they say the British Class structure is dead.
>
> Who says that?  A popular, but unsubstantiated myth - have no truck
> with it. That's my advice.

Spoken as one to the manor born.
The question here, of course, is to which side of the blanket.