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...classes do have to open their mouths sometimes. They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior of a non-U person in that the latter has appreciated the difference between U and non-U, e.g., 'The guard was certainly...
Should the Hottentot tot be taught to say "ought" or "nought," Or what ought to be taught...
Playful, rope-wise males promptly tried to untie her, only to be trampled in the rush. Miss Morgan escaped, left her assailants nought but knots, then lost the suit to the police...
John Grandin is an even more sympathetic figure than the Don Birnam of Lost Weekend fame. For Birnam, there was hope-and Alcoholics Anonymous. For Grandin, nothing. I have traveled extensively and have met many souls kindred to John Grandin. For them, there is nought but continual suffering -unless they choose to become the recipients of the total disgust of their fellowmen...
...their seismic passion rocked the country. "Oh wild betrothal, startling and swift . . .!" Gossips recounted how he had ". , . shamed me in a room in Plymouth . . . carried me [away] by force-[that] I ... lived as his mistress for three months-[but] Richard and I, in the gladness of our hearts, did nought but laugh...