U and non-U English
U and non-U English usage, with U standing for upper class, and non-U representing the rest, were part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects (sociolects) in 1950s Britain and the northeast United States.
References
- Ross, Alan Strode Campbell. 1954. U and non-U, an essay in sociological linguistics in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.
- Mitford, Nancy (ed.). 1956. Noblesse oblige. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 019860520X.
- John Betjeman's How to get on in society or Phone for the fish-knives, Norman
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