The actual class markers are those you rarely see; there are 9,000 personal chefs in America these days, compared with 400 a decade ago.
Indeed, compared to the prewar wealthy, the contemporary rich have no apparent class markers.
Religious affiliation, too, is no longer the reliable class marker it once was.
The distinction between the two ways was once an economic class marker in Toronto with the upper classes favouring the second pronunciation.
The article and photographs were replete with class markers.
For most of the country's history, race was a fairly clear class marker - black usually meant poor, and white middle class or better.
"initial consonant of the customary or class changing marker is retained"
W. Lloyd Warner also asserts the existence of class markers:
This transformation had a huge impact on class markers, blurring the distinction between the upper and middle classes.
In addition to the class markers, there are also articles that mark the number and gender of the nouns.