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There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk, gentlemen often become amorous or maudlin or vomit in public, but they never become truculent.

Alan S. C. Ross

Alan S. C. Ross

Alan S. C. Ross

Born: 1907

Died: 1980 (aged 73)

Bio: Alan Strode Campbell Ross was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage.

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