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Originally Posted by RM
Indeed. The first word I can recall that sent me scurrying for the dictionary was "gentry". I'd never heard anybody use it before, and nobody since.
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True but I bet you've heard them describe renewed urban areas as 'gentrified' or maybe they just use that in my neck of the woods. It's like when they remodel everything so that the few people left in the area can't afford it anymore - and the yuppies fill the place back up.
Bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification