Word: etonisms
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...stars as Laurence Dallaglio, Paul Sackey and Jason Robinson (sons, respectively, of Italian, Jamaican and Ghanaian immigrants). Expect that diversity to grow: As television helps fuel rugby's popularity from the ground up, a rising number of the nation's best players will emerge from more modest milieus than Eton, Harrow and the school that gave the game its name, as kids from all social background embrace a game that "looks like...
...mountaineering expedition. Rory Stewart, on the other hand, gets fitted out on Savile Row. Settling into a tattered armchair in the Afghan capital's Gandamak bar-named after the battlefield where British troops were defeated by the Afghans in 1842 during the first Anglo-Afghan war-the Eton and Oxford alumnus looks and sometimes sounds like an unreconstructed colonial nawab. He clasps his hands behind his head, exposing a pair of malachite cufflinks that glitter against gleaming white cuffs. "The secret to a good suit," he muses, "is using a heavy wool fabric. It keeps the shape much better...
Certain accents are widespread. Posh Queen’s English of the Eton or Cambridge variety is so familiar as to sound humdrum. Such accents, however, are all linked by a common denominator: a decidedly non-plebian heritage. By contrast, the Boston accent has a distinctly blue-collar identity...
...person whom Cameron resembles more than any other is a young Blair. He has the same brow-furrowing desire not only to understand his interlocutors but to empathize with them; the same rootless accent that in Britain indicates an easy start in life (in his case, school days at Eton and a degree from Oxford). And like Blair a decade ago - when he was dumping his party's traditions to appeal to a wider constituency - Cameron inspires suspicion as well as excitement. One Labour Party campaign depicted the Tory leader as a chameleon...
...seems possessed of a certain soft-voiced, secretive tendency. It’s only on our way out of Adams Dining Hall that the English and American Literature and Languages concentrator and Adams resident deigns to mention, ever so quietly, that he “sort of went to Eton.” Or that one of his motivations for attending a college outside his native Britain was the fact that he’s “quite pro-American, really, but I try to keep it quiet here because otherwise people would get big heads...