Count, occasioanlly with a silent o
A friend of mine, lets call him Al, since that's his name, is a real honest-to-goodness bona fide gen-you-wine count.
From proper Spanish aristocracy and everything.
He even has a proper count's hairline (that's a Ray Reardon, or a Jim Robinson if you don't like snooker) and a stately pile in the Isle of Man and everything.

He's an actor and was in the Stephen Fry-directed film Bright Young Things, playing a lord, and he had to make his voice slightly less posh for the role.

Oh, and the Port Out Starboard Home thing is not true at all. That story is a reverse acronym urban myth, one where a word was assumed to be an acronym when it was nothing of the sort.

Oh, and to all the Americans out there, posh doesn't mean either rich or famous, it means being part of the aristocracy, or at least having been rich for many, many generations.
( atomboy, Thu 15 Sep 2005, 11:46, Reply)