Home › Authors › Alan S. C. Ross 👤 Alan S. C. Ross United Kingdom · b. 1907 – d. 1980 · 2 books Biography Alan Strode Campbell Ross was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for author Nancy Mitford's "U and non-U" forms of behaviour and language usage as class indicators. Books by Alan S. C. Ross Aldrediana I Aldrediana I 1959 English philology English philology 1948