That's what I wondered!

Thinking New Joisey might be a little more upmarket than I thought! heheheh

Me three!

It would be more likely that an American would say, "You sound so upper class" or "Your accent makes you sound upper crust". I don't know anyone but British people who use the word posh!

My husband has a terrible time in any type of drive through restaurant...even after almost six years here his level of exasperation trying to get a Filet-O-Fish is palpable.

When he first visited we went to a local Chinese restaurant run by a Chinese born family---he placed his order and the waitress looked at him, looked at me, and said, "what he say?"

~SecretGarden

Posh.

Powsh (long 'o') or pawsh (like 'awww').

discuss.


ooh wait, while you're here, can "scone" be settled too?
skohn or skohwn?

I'm a awwwww prononuncer.

London pronunciation is posh, hard o, not long ooo porsche (pawwsh)

Same with scone, London pronunciation is s-con not scoown. Except in northern England and Scotland where it is deffo scoooowne.
My mother says schowan.
As in "d' yees want a schowan an a schlab a' buthher?"

At my last job the powers that be wanted me to do all the intercom announcements needless to say my site manager was spitting feathers when she was teased about sounding like a WalMart announcer when filling in for me

As much as everybody else liked me she was always on my case and it got to the point that I had to pack the job in

I used to have the same problem, I now order in my Kermit the frog impression and it works every time.

Oh and I forgot about 'water/wadder'. I now have a picture on my phone of a bottle of mineral water to show to waiters/waitresses when I am ordering without my husband around to translate.

I can actually say it the American way but get embarassed.

Does anyone else start to speak much posher (that word again) when asked to repeat yourself?

Instead of trying to repeat the word in a more American way I just start sounding like the Queen.

What is that about?

I just slow my speech right down, and sound a right pratt.

Well, start mocking me then!

Half of your posts make absolutely no sense to me.

Funny how you get used to saying something a certain way, and struggle to say it the way the natives would do, even if that's right in that country. I would struggle to pronounce 'posh' as you described ... that sounds like a way I like my eggs cooked sometimes.

Except when they are in the extremes, Aroostook County...I know they are speaking English up there...but honestly, can't understand a word they are saying.

What's worse, FIL can't either and he went to uni in Fort Kent

show them your flipper, sorted

Posh, plenty, upper class and crust, never heard anyone say that here.

Good point. When we first moved onto our street a neighbor said ... "Are y'all teachers? Cuz y'all talk so proper." True story! We thought ... no ... about 3 hours north of here ...

I don't know that I'd expect to hear that in JerseyGirl's neck of the woods though.