Tony Walker

Again, very illuminating about British culture, particularly at that time, but to an extent still.

So she wasn't a, how shall I put it?

So you might be thinking, what's he talking about?

And she says she's careful with her English and her manners aren't quite easy.

So what's he saying?

Is she foreign?

No, what he means is she isn't one of us.

So she's... Where was I?

I read The Owl Service by Alan Garner recently.

Actually, when I was walking off, I had a copy in Welsh.

Lles-tryd y llian, it was.

So I thought it would be a good opportunity to read a Welsh novel.

So anyway, in this case, Gwyn, the young Welsh working-class lad, he gets a series of records to learn how to talk.

like posh people, like RP as they call it, Received Pronunciation.

So the point is this, you would improve your, try to sound, if you were working class, you would try to sound a little bit posher.

But they would know you weren't.

They would know that you weren't and your manners weren't quite.

You might do something like call a serviette a napkin or call perfume scent.

No, the other way around.

Scent is perfume.