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What (who) is U and non-U English - definition
U and non-U English
SOCIAL CLASS RELATED DIALECT DIFFERENTIATION
Non-U; U and non-U; U word; U and non-U english; U and non-U English usage; U and non-U english usage; Non-U and U english usage; Non-U and U English usage; Non-U and U english; Non-U and U English; How to Get On in Society
U and non-U English usage, where "U" stands for upper class, and "non-U" represents the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects (sociolects) in Britain in the 1950s. The different vocabularies can often appear quite counter-intuitive: the middle classes prefer "fancy" or fashionable words, even neologisms and often euphemisms, in attempts to make themselves sound more refined ("posher than posh"), while the upper classes in many cases stick to the same plain and traditional words that the working classes also use, as, confident in the security of their social position, they have no need to seek to display refinement.
non-U
SOCIAL CLASS RELATED DIALECT DIFFERENTIATION
Non-U; U and non-U; U word; U and non-U english; U and non-U English usage; U and non-U english usage; Non-U and U english usage; Non-U and U English usage; Non-U and U english; Non-U and U English; How to Get On in Society
¦ adjective Brit. informal (of language or social behaviour) not characteristic of the upper social classes.
Ú
LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET
U acute; Uacute; U-acute; Ṹ; U+00DA; U with acute
Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Frisian, Irish, Occitan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Galician, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".
