In Edinburgh, SCIS proudly announce that 1 in 4 pupils are educated at a private school, the highest proportion in the UK. Our son went to the local school, which is code. In Glasgow it is a different percentage. They say things like ‘can yeez no jist send yer bairns tae the school?’ They don’t want to in the capital though. They need to make sure girlfriends are from the same income bracket. Keep the money in the family. How common.
My mother is a smart cookie. She doesn’t like being looked down on however. She likes jigsaws and wordplay. She knows what the word CARNAPTIOUS means. There was even a family spat in recent years about ONOMATOPOEIA. Whatever.
Standing as it does for Port Over Starboard Home, and with it’s origins in The Raj, POSH even has a song. Condescension, wealth, breeding, righteousness, deservedness, arbiters of taste, code switching… unlike my art school: punk rock, listening in horror to classmates talking about buying shares, overnight bus to London, waking up to beans and chips in what’s it called?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Snobs
Accents alive and kicking
Then there’s Brian Sewell
Private View https://youtu.be/A5qKgYgRvPA
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