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kindkit ([personal profile] kindkit) wrote2010-05-27 09:30 pm
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English geographical insult

I'm in search of some fairly specialized English knowledge, here. I need the name of a town or region that a rather snobbish upper-class Englishman (in 1939) might use as an example of provincial narrow-mindedness. [ETA: Of the middle-class rather than rural or working-class variety.] He's putting down someone who has just expressed an attitude he considers unsophisticated, and the line will be something like "You sound like a vicar's daughter from X."

Any suggestions?
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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2010-05-28 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sussex?

ETA: sorry, too rural. Nothing comes to mind, though. Or what about Surbiton?
Edited 2010-05-28 12:02 (UTC)