U.K. class system
Sir,-From his experience of the English class system (September 2), would Mr Coates please classify my sister who is married to an English doctor (middle middle) but herself drives an ancient Mini (upper middle). Should he call her “Sir"? Or, conversely, can he adduce his considerable’ (upper middle) desire for privacy against the fact that one of her two university degrees was obtained at a lower middle/ middle middle seat of learning? But, what of the fact that they share the same (upper class) lavatory in their (formerly working class) cottage? Bewildering and complex to Mr Coates, perhaps, but a fascinating exercise in nuances and subtleties to anyone, who has lived within the system long enough — say 40 years — to understand and appreciate it! Mr Coates’s first-class travellers are silent because they are at work assimilating and analysing the latest economic and political news.—Yours, etc.,
W. R. ALLARDYCE. September 2, 1982.
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