"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:luhovv0o0pnncpgsqrbllj2io62gedils8@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:48:00 -0500, "Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote
> >>Ian J Cottee <ian@cottee.org> wrote:
> >> >JJD <jefdrab@newsguy.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> >>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.
Hoo hoo!