What is posh?

Posh people say 'garage' (accent on the 'ga' and a long second 'a'), real people say 'garridge', according to DH. So that makes him non-posh and me posh. Sounds about right.

Toilet or lavatory?

Was it Nancy Mitford?

Oh yes, u and non u........barmy!

Moocow.

Taking stuff from the link.

Yes, hot water never runs out, no matter how many people she has to say.

Furniture etc is so old, or else the stuff she does buy is old style, that even my mother says it is old fashioned.

When she thought they were moving, she found 22 tea-sets in total. No idea how old they all were, or which generation they had come from. Even she was surprised by just how many she had.And where she had had them all stored, I have no idea. It took her an age to wrap them all up individually for the proposed move which didnt happen in the end.

She likes baths and has them at the drop of a hat.

She has a thing about salt and pepper pots. Recently gave me a very large set. Pepper grinder, salt grinder? I dont know what they are called. Still in the back of my cupboard. Are out of place in my house, so I think they will stay there.

Well supplied with whatever a guest may need, including ashtrays.
Plenty of lamps etc.

Thank you notes are hand-written and sent.

I think the link leaves out something important.

They tend to be social, host lots of social events with apparent ease no matter how many people, or who the set of people are.
They are well connected, know people who know people, and are excellent at anything to do with food, and other things too such as flower arranging.

They are landowners.

Jalima my grandmother (born in the 1880s) had a double barrelled surname (preens).

Teetime : Glass= U, mirror = non U. Sofa = U, settee = non U. Napkin = U, serviette = non U. Can't remember any others, until I press 'send'.

I was an army brat but my DD was an officer so I was considered posh. I now realise I was and still am a snob!

I am dead common but my father was a Baron. I don't expect to be believed. We didn't find out until I was 15 as my dad thought such things as titles were ridiculous.

I used to be accused of being posh at primary school because I talked proper. I'm not sure how you tell now. Money and posessions won't work, look at the hideous Philip Green.

When I was growing up we referred to ourselves as RAF brats but if we'd dared to call a civilian child a brat we'd have been in serious trouble. We had to put up with them calling us Posho kids though

My son when he was trying to be a bit gangsta as a teenager used to call me posh lady because I spoke properly! I'm definitely common as they come. But you can understand what I say, unlike my mumbling kids!

This is what I think of posh
Posh is one thing but class is a on a different level. Posh is ostentatious but class is self effacing. Posh tends to follow fashion blindly, but class is comfortable in its own style. Posh likes to think it's superior but class is simply quietly confident but definitely not superior. Posh is not concerned how it's behaviour affects others , but class has the ultimate in good manners. Posh is not comfortable to be around but class has the ability to welcome all.

Oh no, I've been outed!!

Got to go, babysitting tonight and Charlotte is screaming her head off because George has just gone in and woken her up, yelling 'you're only second in line, stop pretending to be so posh'.

OMG Jalima you're not.....
Carole Middleton are you??

Posh is what makes someone else uncomfortable.

I was obviously an egalitarian when I was at High School because I remember saying that my mother had made one of my school dresses and bought the other one; I didn't like the one she bought but liked the other one.
One girl in my class said that her mother had made her dress - all stitched by hand because they couldn't afford a sewing machine.
I was really impressed by that, unlike some of the other girls. All I thought about was the love that went into that dress.

we plebs

Posh to me was a shop bought school cardigan . Not my hand knitted one. How envious was I?

Christinefrance I was just thinking that as I ate my pudding this evening.

People with piles of money may not be posh.
People who have threadbare carpets may well be posh.

My mother's relatives are descended from royalty - are they posh? Certainly it was only through marriage not the bloodline so we are not posh!!

Double-barrelled surnames (or triple) used to be posh but anyone and everyone these days can have a double-barrelled surname, even us plebs.

Pigglywiggly - on Tyneside that's the definition of posh:
"Froot on the tyebl and neebody bad!"

Poshgran I grew up in a Corrie-type terraced house. I had a friend who lived in a prefab and I really envied her. I thought friends who lived in council houses were "posh".

There is a whole world of difference between the nouveau riche and the genuine article. The truly posh have quality clothes which are very old, ditto furniture, carpets etc. They say pudding and not dessert.
Sadly I don't belong in either category just your average working class woman.

Some of my ancestors were posh but not others (and not me) by any means. Maternal GGF hunted with the Quorn as my mother never tired of telling everyone and I never tired of quoting Oscar Wilde at her: 'the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable'. She would pretend not to hear.

My mum hated us using the word "posh" she said it was "common" to use that word! How funny!