I agree with a couple fo the other posts here
It is people trying hard not to be that are the most common. For example my grandma. She is the real life Hyacinth Bucket.

When I was born, as her first grandchild, she spent ages deciding what I should call her. The conclusion was that 'granny' sounded too old and 'nan' was far far too common, so it had to be Grandma.

When engaged to her current (third) husband, she found out that his surname was originally Harrop-Turner, rather than the Turner that he and his whole family have used for 2 generations. They are a very wealthy well-to-do upperclass family, but prefer Turner, they arent pretentious or pushy about their wealth or class.
She got so excited about the idea of having a double-barrelled name that she uses Harrop-Turner and therefore had a differnt name to the rest of her new family.

She is a farmers daughter form Dorset, born and bred there and her accent is quite broad. Hearing her trying to pronounce words she thinks make her sound posh but shouldnt rightly be using, is pretty funny. Especially when she decides to talk French. It is all pronounced exactly as she reads it because she doesnt actually have a clue.

She taught me how to lay a silver service table at the age of 5. I havent yet needed to use that knowledge.
( TheGirlWithNoName, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:06, 1 reply)

Seeyon Deeyon
Like your nan (hoohoo), my girlfriend's mum thinks she is posh despite her Dorset farming background.
She also either thinks she can pronounce things correctly in French despite not speaking a word of it, or she assumes that nobody else does, therefore thinking she's getting away with it: A while ago, she told me how she loves to listen to Celine Dion, or "Seeyon Deeyon".
She will only buy food in M&S.
"You really can't get a decent bottle of wine for under £6 can you?", she said to me a while ago. Silly, stuck up thick bat.
I'm sure her lovely daughter was adopted.
(Rumpig, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:55, closed)