Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
The English have terrible hangups about accents. Posh people look down on working class people (who speak differently). And the working class people consider the middle and upper class people to be arrogant snobs... This is beginning to change a little bit, but it's still a very real issue. As soon as somebody opens their mouth other British people can immediately tell what the speaker's social background is...
"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him"
"My Fair Lady", 1964 .