I am accused - this often happens - of being pompous. I have found that this tends to mean that I speak, where possible, in complete sentences, don't use glottal stops or affect an estuary accent. I used to do this even when I sold the 'Socialist Worker' outside Woolworths on Saturdays, and indeed outside Goole Docks on Fridays, and who is to say now whether or how it affected sales? It is just the way I was brought up, which is perhaps the problem. Or not the problem. What do people mean to say