[I'm not an English prof, sorry]shhh
"She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been encouraged to do a lot of that in school. . . .This is because their English teachers would wince and cover their ears and give them flunking grades and so on whenever they failed to speak like English aristocrats before the First World War." BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, p. 142, Kurt the Vonnegut
