Unenglish

George IV. who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.

But though he spoke so tartly I could see that he was not a little proud of his scapegrace son, he loved him with oh, such an unEnglish love, and in his heart it flattered him that George had cut such a dash.

> You give /kO:t/ given as the "British" pronunciation for both, / Not I, but Mark Israel. The table you're referring to is taken straight from his FAQ. COD9 gives /kO:t/, and no other pronunciation, for both words. The much older OED2 gives /kO:t/ for 'caught', but for 'court' it gives /kO@t/, which sounds unEnglish to me.

Can't someone tell them that instillation of "white pride" at school is completely unEnglish? Important matters have to absorbed by osmosis: these things are not spoken of, except by colonials.

This is very interesting from an Anglophone viewpoint. There may well have been a book about it - I don't know; but there were definite stagey pronunciations of English around the turn of the 19-20C. This repertoire included a very unEnglish trilled r, which as late as the 1960s was mistakenly regarded as desirable in careful speech by a few people.

I have no objection to 'convicted' criminals being forced to give up the loot. The idea of seizing someone's wealth without convicting them of a criminal offence is distictly^([sic]) unEnglish. It doesn't accord with the priciples^([sic]) of English justice I was brought up to respect. It simply turns the police and courts into thieves.