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91U and non-U — The term was not known to Fowler (1926) but the idea of language use as a distinguishing feature of class most certainly was, as his article on ‘genteelisms’ (paying guest for lodger, serviette for napkin, etc.) shows. The term U, denoting the… …
92NEW YORK CITY — NEW YORK CITY, foremost city of the Western Hemisphere and largest urban Jewish community in history; pop. 7,771,730 (1970), est. Jewish pop. 1,836,000 (1968); metropolitan area 11,448,480 (1970), metropolitan area Jewish (1968), 2,381,000… …
