What does the language used in the sentences below tell you about the speakers?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 501.

New money riff-raff upper crust stuck-up

1 They're probably called the ........................ because they like to spend hours sitting at a pine dinner table over their fettucine discussing the latest book or exhibition.

2 Pink Rolls Royces are much more likely to be owned by ...................... than the old aristocracy.

3 I don't know why they allow such ......................... in a lovely classy restaurant like this.

4 Although her dad's a duke, she's not at all .......................... .

5 Karl was glad to have escaped the ...........…......... attitudes of the small town he had grown up in and to be living in the much more liberal atmosphere of a city.

6 Her parents sent her to a private school mainly because they did not want her to grow up talking in a way that they considered ........................................ .

7 The expression ................................ derives from the fact that the most important people in the medieval dining hall were given the best or top part of a loaf of bread.

8 Maria's parents, Lord and Lady De Vere, are very upset that she wants to marry someone whom they consider to be an ignorant...................................

1 The whole family used to gather together and listen to the wireless every Sunday evening.

2 We all still dress for dinner even when no one is expected. One has to do one's best to keep up standards.

3 Old Jack has bought a spiffing new motor.

4 Your new mobile is wicked - I'll text you from uni this afternoon.

5 We wasn't doing nothing, was we, Tracey?

2.3. The comic novels by the writer PG. Wodehouse about a `toff' called Bertie Wooster make extensive use of a now rather dated upper-class dialect of English. What do you think the underlined words, typical of these novels, mean?

1 Don't be such a chump! Aunt Angela won't bite you!

2 You must help me, old sport. I'm in an awful fix.

3 I'm short of money now but I'm hoping an old uncle, who's rolling in stuff, will kick the beam soon and leave me his fortune.