How do you define someone as being posh?

I think being posh is when you don't have to put vinegar in the sauce bottle any more.

Having said that I have been called “posh” just because we always eat at the table

I did the quiz and came out as middle class which I am most certainly not.

Working class girl and proud.

I live in council bungalow, am daughter of coal miner, brought up in a .Manse, do not have a table because no room for one , wouldn't never use a serviette though , but do use paper napkins because I don't do ironing , never eat ketchup , am a MIF, so the quiz is daft

Did the quiz. I'm definitely posh. Good grief, how did that happen? I wouldn't say I'm posh. I'd say I tend to be polite so answered the questions accordingly. I blame my mam for this. She was insistent that I shouldn't act common.

Did the quiz , I am - an out and out U, how daft

Did the quiz which said that I'm from no specific class and probably not from England!!!!!

I am resolutely common but I have picked up some 'posh' ways I suppose depending on your perspective e.g We never eat off a tray watching TV but we do sit at the table watching TV when we have dinner with serviettes (recyclable) not napkins - too much washing and ironing. Its a practical thing DH would throw his dinner all down his front in an armchair and it makes digestion difficult.
My BIL insists on calling me a snob because I shop at Sainsbury!

I think a lot of aspiring middle-class people changed their vocabulary when they read the Nancy Mitford ideas in the press. My parents did to some extent.

Have you ever felt somewhat out of your depth socially? I once had a very upper-class boyfriend. (Needless to say it didn’t last.) We were on holiday in Switzerland and he took me to lunch with a friend of his family, a very rich old lady who had been a well-known writer. Her house (I think it was in Vevey) had a ballroom. Lunch was just the three of us, and was pleasantly informal apart from the fact that it was served by a butler and there were finger bowls on the table. I didn’t use my finger bowl because, I reasoned, my fingers were perfectly clean and not sticky, but I noticed my boyfriend did use it. I learnt later that you are supposed to use it whether you need it or not. I still cringe a bit when I think of my social blunder!

We don't even eat tea at our table, our lounge is so small and we don't use serviettes. We eat watching tv. And where do we live ?East London . My DH talks about mowing the lawns which in fact are two small squares of grass.

I have a friend who went to Eton, sounds like a 'Tally ho' WWII RAF pilot and lives comfortably in a Georgian crescent town house. He never talks about money or what he has. To him it's just the way life is. He's posh but lovely.

The quiz says I'm a 'u'
My Black Country friends think I'm 'posh' because I was born in Bath, and pronounce it as Barth

I wonder what all these words mean to everyone. We have 'Posh' is that upper-class or just monied. The "U" quiz is an interesting one. "U" stands for upper-class and non-U for catching out the aspiring middle classes. I can't actually remember but I think it was the early 50s when Nancy Mitford caught this phrase and wrote about it. Do we really have so many from the upper classes on this forum?

I'm not sure that people are as defined by class any more and would certainly like to think they are not. Education and money seem to get you further these days although who your father was and where you come from can still give you advantages.

Life is too short to decant ketchup. Bottle on the table.

Nouveau riche people who ostentatiously flaunt their cash are not posh.People who are used to being posh are always understated. I still can't bring myself to put a milk or sauce bottle on the table having had it drummed into me that this was 'not done' .
If you have kitchen supper and not tea you are posh!!
Not sure where all that leaves me eating from a tray in the 'lounge'

Well I took the quiz twice, answering the questions the same the first time I was middle the second time I was common as muck however it’s a daft quiz as a lot of the question don’t actually have my answer
But I m working class not common and I don’t know any men that wear red trousers what’s that got to do with the price of bread I don’t use serviettes I use kitchen roll or on guests appearances paper napkins I live in a front room and as for the birthday cake I ve never been in a Sainsbury’s so it d probably be Asda for me as I don’t think Lidl do them ? none of those drinks were what I would chose so I had to go for the least unlikely ... load of tosh actually

Many years ago, my DSs ex girlfriend went home and said we were posh because we used a gravy boat.
Apparently her mum went and bought one!

Granny23 you sound lovely ! I hope your posh sister appreciates you .

How should one eat asparagus, kitty? Do tell so I can ramp up my poshness rating! ?

(not that I'll change the way I do eat it but it'll be nice to know ?; one of those insignificant little things that might be useful in a quiz)

I’m an out and out ‘U’. I think it was the kitchen question that did for me. I said the must have was an aga. I’m temporarily staying in a house that has one, and it’s fabulous, darling.

I'm U too!

It's a weird quiz though as lots of my answers were choosing the nearest thing. For instance, we don't like asparagus but I do know how you should eat it.

I use China mugs but we have a lounge. We have a dining room but mostly eat in the kitchen, we use serviettes because it's more ecologically sound and therefore we have serviette rings.

When we have the grandchildren here we put their sauce in little bowls for them to 'dip' into.

It's all a bit of fun really - which is what Kate said at the beginning

I echo that about napkin rings. Prince Charles was given some once, and he didn’t know what they were. If you’re posh you don’t have them. Same goes for sauce bottles.

I did the quiz and am apparently U, but. I couldn’t answer some of the questions properly. I don’t call my friends any of those things. I call them friends.

I do use the word ‘posh’, but only ironically.

I was told that only the middle classes had napkin rings. Posh folk had servants who laid the table with freshly laundered linen napkins for every meal. The common folk didn't use napkins except on special occasions when they used paper napkins. Common folk trying to impress will refer to their paper napkins as "serviettes".

A lounge is only found in a pub, hotel or airport, not in a home ( unless you're trying to be Hyacinth Bucket).

^Posh is having napkin rings (and using them).*

Not at all sure why you all want to judge other people but if you are judging yourselves this is very middle-class!

"Posh", if you mean what used to be seen as upper-class, would not need a napkin ring because you would know you would have a clean linen napkin at each meal.

What quiz ?