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1. According to Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", if someone speaks to you but you don't quite hear what they said, what is the correct English upper class response?
2. What have Kate Fox's studies revealed as what the English upper classes would call the room which one visits to relieve oneself?
3. Which word, according to Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", would an English upper class person use to describe a small piece of cloth used in wiping the lips and fingers and in protecting the clothes while eating; "serviette" or "napkin"?
4. What, reports Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", would an English upper class person call the meal one has in the middle of the day (or thereabouts)? And the one in the evening?
5. And what word is revealed, in Kate Fox's "Watching the English", as the correct name, if you are truly "posh", for the course towards the end of your evening meal, when one might be served gateau, syllabub or fool?
6. In her studies for the book "Watching the English", what word did Kate Fox discover the English upper classes would use to describe an upholstered seat for two or more people?
7. And, as reported in Kate Fox's "Watching the English", in which room of an English upper class house would you find a sofa or couch?
8. According to social anthropologists, if you are of the English upper class would you be "wealthy" or "rich"?
9. If you want to pass off as a truly posh English person you should never use the word "posh".
10. Who popularised the phrase "U and non-U" to distinguish between upper class words and non upper class words?
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