First editon. 122pp. In purple cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, just a little bumped on extreme edges. Dust wrapper design and illustration by Nicolas Bentley.
This volume follows on from Alan Ross's How to Pronounce It. In that book he distinguished between U and Non-U pronounciations and between the educated and the uneducated pronounciations. In this book he does the same for words and phrases. Thus 'pleased to meet you' is, in his view, non-U; and 'I was there light-years ago' is certainly not educated, light years between a measurement of distance not time.
