Talk:Snob

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This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Snob. The consensus was to keep it. dbenbenn | talk 05:01, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Word history of snob

There is no evidence that snob is derived from sine nobilitate. This is popular etymology. According to various dictionaries, snob is derived from an 18th-century word meaning cobbler/shoemaker. That is the earliest written occurence of snob.

  1. http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwordorigins/snob
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?snob
  3. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=29

The straw hat illustration, with the caption "American style straw hat. Complex social rules can determine when an occasion is sufficiently informal so that a man may correctly wear this hat." I deleted this, which confuses snobbery with etiquette. Someone may want to insert the image there. --Wetman 21:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jesuits

Jesuits?

Jesuits, where?

[edit] "Inverted snobbery"

There's no section on inverted snobbery - surely a serious omission.--80.6.118.162 18:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smug

Surely there is no reasion for Smug to redirect to snobbery, they are after all completely different things.

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