Brian Sewell states: On my first day at Haberdashers’ School in 1942 — a suburban horror pretending to be a public school — I was mocked for my very cultivated manner of speaking. ‘You’ve had elocution lessons,’ said a slightly older boy, immediately punching me, and then other boys piled in. ‘What,’ I asked my mother later in the day, ‘is elocution?’ — to which her reply was: ‘Something you’ll never need, darling.’Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1394164/Posher-Queen--Brian-Sewell-argues-properly-enunciated-English-worlds-glories.html#ixzz1OHuZZEcD
