Loving the common thread so much thought we should go “POSH”

nanna8 Why are the things you describe 'posh'? Expensive, yes, but 'posh'?

Ahhhhhh haaaaa yes the word posh.

This word i use a lot in a jokey manner, i pronounce it poooosh.

I dont label anyone as posh just the same as i dont label anyone as Common but i do find it easier to turn the word posh into an elongated 1 and slip it into a conversation in jest.

Rich is not the same as posh. You can be as rich a Croesus but still be common as much.

loud people on a bus, keep your voices down to the area you occupy, .

My great aunt Elizabeth told us about a time she was queuing in a bakers shop. A lady in front was trying hard to be posh. She asked for, 'Faive hot paise please'. We have referred to pies as 'paise' ever since.

Posh here is going to the right schools and having a lot of money with trips to places like the Antarctic, the Galápagos Islands, Scandinavia as well as several houses in different locations. Mainly plumbers who earn so much money it makes your eyes water.

My Mum and Dad used to run a Royal Estate. Mum organised the events and Dad did the accounts. They lived in the Mews there and had a nice time. I remember they used to giggle at the posh accents of some guests. They were setting up the ballroom and were one chair short. 'I say, there's a spah chah hah.' which was there's a spare chair here. Dad would say he was a wood bee, not a be.

I was brought up to believe everyone was the equal of me.

People might be better off than us, belong to a different social circle, have tastes and make choices that my parents might consider unncessarily ostentatious, but the word 'posh' excpt in its literal meaning was not in their vocabulary.

Anyone who went to university and ‘read Classics’ as we often hear on Mastermind ….

Double barrelled surnames used to be posh when I was young. No longer the case. Quite the opposite.

It also used to be posh to have a personalised car number plate, now every Tom, Dick and Harry ( who were they btw?) can have one, no longer posh.

Hard to define ‘poshness’. My DD used to be a nanny to a lady who epitomised being ‘posh’. Not just how she spoke, the lovely house she lived in, her lifestyle.

If she had lost all her money, her home, her lifestyle, she would still have been ‘posh’, but I can’t tell you how I know that.

My mother would have called it ‘breeding’.

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