can someone parse this please

[shooty]

yearbook without posh chronicle. 5 letters. A_N_L = annal

i understand annual as yearbook
i understand annal is a chronicle
how does posh = the letter 'u' ?

mucho gracious

[grasscarp]

U and non U, which was something a long time ago, associated with Nancy Mitford. U was something which people should do, and non U was things that were not good to do in a nutshell.

[factor-fiction]

It is quite common in crossowrds- it's a phrase my mum used so maybe it was from the 1950s- - certainly non-U is still used occasionally

[douglas9401]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

[factor-fiction]

I thought U meant fashionable rather than posh but maybe it stands for Upper

[Prudie]

Can't remember the origin but posh is U and not-posh or not the done thing is non-U

[ladyalex]

http://en.wikipedia.o...i/U_and_non-U_English

[boxtops]

Everyone got there before me - just what I was going to say :-)

[shooty]

thats a nUw one on me. i'm sure i'll have plenty more of questions like this in the future. thanks : )

[douglas9401]

U'r welcome

[grasscarp]

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember this phase. I think I read a small book of illustrations which had captions of what was U and non U. It was in the sixties.

[shooty]

upperclass / posh. same same but different : )

thanks douglas and ladyalex for the link : )

[ladybirder]

U was meant by Nancy to mean one of Us. I'll let you work out Non U. Read it in one of her books years ago. :-)