Snobbiest cities in America

[Siege]

I don't know what snob means...

[merithyn]

I don't know what snob means...

Charles Murray: Are you a snob?

[Admiral Yi]

Snob is a contraction of the Latin words sine nobilitas, meaning without nobility.  It was coined by upper class twits in British boarding schools to distinguish themselves (the nobs--those with nobilitas) from the new money social climbers who had made fortunes in the East India Company.

Basically it means someone who acts as if they're better than you based on their wealth, their family, their occupation, where they went to school, things like that.

[merithyn]

Snob is a contraction of the Latin words sine nobilitas, meaning without nobility.  It was coined by upper class twits in British boarding schools to distinguish themselves (the nobs--those with nobilitas) from the new money social climbers who had made fortunes in the East India Company.

Didn't know that. Pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.

[Admiral Yi]

Didn't know that. Pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.

What makes that factoid particularly fun for me is the way the meaning of snob has evolved; we would now call the nobs snobs.

[Pishtaco]

Snob is a contraction of the Latin words sine nobilitas, meaning without nobility.  It was coined by upper class twits in British boarding schools to distinguish themselves (the nobs--those with nobilitas) from the new money social climbers who had made fortunes in the East India Company.

Basically it means someone who acts as if they're better than you based on their wealth, their family, their occupation, where they went to school, things like that.

Surely sine nobilitate, ablative.

[Admiral Yi]

 

Sine nobilitas is what I got from a NYT review of a biography of whatshisname, the British dude who won all those battles in India.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Snob is a contraction of the Latin words sine nobilitas, meaning without nobility.  It was coined by upper class twits in British boarding schools to distinguish themselves (the nobs--those with nobilitas) from the new money social climbers who had made fortunes in the East India Company.

Basically it means someone who acts as if they're better than you based on their wealth, their family, their occupation, where they went to school, things like that.

Yeah, San Francisco wins by a mile.

[merithyn]

What makes that factoid particularly fun for me is the way the meaning of snob has evolved; we would now call the nobs snobs.

It's not that we think very highly of nobs, either, though.

[Eddie Teach]

The French had the right idea.

[CountDeMoney]

The French had the right idea.

Guillotines.  Fuck yeah.

[Valmy]

The French had the right idea.

Guillotines.  Fuck yeah.

[The Brain]

The French had the right idea.

Guillotines.  Fuck yeah.

I saw the Swedish one a few days ago. Only used once.

[CountDeMoney]

I saw the Swedish one a few days ago. Only used once.

What, is it Polish or something?  You can raise the blade again, you know.

[DGuller]

The French had the right idea.

Guillotines.  Fuck yeah.

I saw the Swedish one a few days ago. Only used once.

What a waste.