How U are you?

Mary Killen's Beauty Tips

Of course there is no such thing as snobbery today. But it was rampant 70 years ago, in the winter of 1954.

That's when Nancy Mitford wrote her article on U and non-U – later expanded into her book Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956).

Mileage was made for decades about her glossary: which