plebby

'Shut your stupid, ugly face and keep your filthy, plebby hands off my beautiful daughter, you unctuous little prick,' says Mr Harbinson.

She probably thinks of this story as a thought experiement - what might happen if she went into a plebby shop to buy something that people probably eat and met someone fat.

The waiters don't have menus, they come and shout at you and if you're sitting 'upstairs' on the ground floor, as opposed to the much more plebby basement, then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not.

The -others, however, have seen fit to conduct their various spats not via the plebby means of actual talking to one another, but, in the case of the Cheryl Cole, through the slogans on her T-shirts, while Amis and Ford have resorted to the middle-class equivalent thereof: the letters page of a newspaper.