>Tell me, is it just the rhyme that make me remember only something about "dim witty" Mitford?

I don't recognise the rhyme but I think that Nancy was definitely witty and some of the other Mitfords were definitely dim. Do you know which Mitford it refers too?

I've added some information about the Mitfords in another thread as we may like to talk more generally about class and language.

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=18975