Re: How posh are you?
 

Maybe, if he applied himself.

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wot, how do you figure that?

Again I had to google & every reference to 'lawyer' is that it is a profession - seedy reference

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Perhaps, if he married well.

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If you have to google, you're not posh.

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If one were posh, one would not engage in trade. To differentiate between trades of differing natures, as you have done, is a trait of hoi polloi.

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is wife is posh spice ....

Beckham is only money posh for now

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Quite aside from dbd's point (which I suppose is valid, although there are very few people even in the proper upper classes who do not practice some form of trade or profession these days), posh people would never "go on" about cars, or clothes, or toys, and especially not with somebody who does not have access to the same things.

One of the things the English (in all social strata) are very good at is not talking about, or bragging about, money. Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character in the 80s was funny at least in part because the whole concept of a wealthy stock jobber splashing it all about was so alien to UK society at the time. This is not really the case in Canada; much less so again in the US.

Kate Fox's book "Watching the English" is very good on this, if you want to learn about social stratification and class perceptions in today's society.

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thanks;)

Makes you wonder how many BE members pay too much for their ISP so they can be posh

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"money posh"?

Being wealthy does not make you posh - I thought we'd established that. Class and wealth are two very different things. Just look at all the McMansions with their hideous gold-plated fittings to understand that...

Alan Clark, a properly posh British politician, had a wonderful put-down of the (to his mind) arriviste Michael Heseltine. Something along the lines of "Good God, he's the sort of man who probably has to buy his own furniture."

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Are you British posh

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-People-Believe-You're-British

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...vey-finds.html

Our great posh pretense: One in five people change their accent to sound more posh to get a job or chat someone up, survey finds

Re: How posh are you?
 

I guess its all down to the definition of posh

What is your personal definition of posh?

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Genteel. Well bred, refined, suitable to be in polite society.

Yours?

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I'd still dispute that. Where there's a difference, maybe, is that Brits may focus on both ends of the scale, expressing disapproval for lah-di-dah posh gits and chavs/benefits 'scroungers' whereas Canadians are more likely to focus exclusively on the "welfare" crowd.

And politicians. ;)

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My nan says she’s posh because she doesn’t line up outside the toilets in the Mecca like Ethel and Betty, to give Sid the Caller a nosh off for an extra punch card.

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Your nan, Oink, is posher than posh. Sid the caller has unpleasant diseases, anyway - she's better off keeping her teeth in and concentrating on the cards she does have.

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'Bollocks' isn't a well reasoned argument.

You seem to be hanging on to the idea that to be posh is to be better. It isn't, and it isn't to be worse. It is just different.

To answer your question, how hard do I try? Like anyone else it would depend on how much i want to fit in, to be accepted. I have tried in the past, these days i make no conscious effort but i know my accent changes depending on who i am talking to.

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It is a bit.

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Oaky,

You are indeed correct that the "well to do type" won't be caught dead talking about wonga, however they do it subliminally by exhibiting it obvious ways...cars, clothing, vacations, hotels they stay at et al

Simon Cowell was once asked by Graham Norton, if he will ever drive a Miata? Simon's response..."are you mad", my friends will never speak to me again

Hmmm....this is debatable and open to interpretation

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Surely Simon Cowell is the antithesis of posh. He's just rich.

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We used to have a piano at home. We pronounced it pianno.

Depending on who she was talking to, my mum would change it to piah-no.

Sounds more like a perfume. Or should I say scent? :lol:

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Not really. That's an excerpt from the concise OED.

As for your other point on Cowell, dbd's said it already. If he is your exemplar of posh, you have entirely misunderstood the concept.

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I cannot define posh because it has no meaning.

Well bred is a difficult one for me, other than relating to say the Royal family who IMO are all cocked up bred based on wealth

Cultured - well, I guess that has to be defined for someone who cannot relate. Possibly again using the Royal Family. Could it be the clothes they wear, manners, grooming is different from what I do or wear? I suppose cultured could be viewed differently by folks from different walks of life

How folks speak (accent) as long as I sort of get what they're saying I'm OK- for me they'd just be everyday common or working class folks. If they purposely are trying to infer posh by using confusing sentences or words or terminology, well, that just does me head in.

Polite. I need to think about that one more

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in any accent its a pee-an-o or pea-an-o

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This is starting to feel like The Twilight Zone.

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what is?

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Frightfully infra dig for one to reference a television program in polite conversation, is it not?

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So you are saying your mum was able to metamophorsize?

Actually, it's eau de toilet :D

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Can you see anything on the wing?

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Eau di cologne, innit? The chav word for scent. Also used for phone, as in "Oi, china, you're wanted on the eau di". (Back when people shared telephones).

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You forgot to include your usual bigoted comments in there...pick another race / group this time would ya? In the last 2 days, you've exhausted Blacks, and Asians

Am convinced that you actually think you are funny

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I expect I've put some years on the Swiss and Irish too.

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That's you , that is.

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I was referring to her trying to sound posh by giving it a soft 'ah' sound though. :)

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I knew exactly what you meant - one of the stock of posh pronunciations/words.

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A joke

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I can just imagine, same as the well dressed ones in Montreal with the lovely French accent I imagine