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This thread has recalled to me Nancy Mitford's article on U and non-U usage in Noblesse Oblige. I wonder how many of her preferred U terms are still in use? A few I remember are looking glass rather than mirror, false teeth rather than dentures, and spectacles (!) rather than glasses. Surely no one says spectacles any more.
I remember she waxed wroth in regard to the ethnic appellation Scot/Scots. Scotch, she insisted, was correct. And when she got the corrected proofs of her books back, she'd go into it and change all the corrections back to the Scotch she had used originally.
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