used to be posh
my parents (who, incidentally, are from yorkshire and birmingham) brought me up in a then-up-and-coming-now-VERY-posh bit of London. They wouldn't let me drop my t's and h's like the council estate kids at school, but everything else seemed to go. So I developed this rather odd posh/south london accent, as did my friends, whose parents had the same idea. We all sound like Kiera Knightly really does, which certainly has uses.

However, a very good friend of mine was brought up in Port Talbot (in Wales, for the uninitiated). Her dad was so worried that she would develop a Welsh accent and experience some kind of social stigma from it (?) that he sent her to elocution lessons for ten years. She now sounds like Honor Blackman, which is quite odd for a chinese lass from the depths of chavdom.

Poshest person i ever met was the son of a lord, owned three multi-million-pound companies at 18 and a house worth 5mil. He was also the most socially inept right-wing virgin I have ever met.

Though I did once spend a new years eve at a VERY POSH house-and-grinds, where i got spectacularly wankered and crawled through the corridors vomiting after watching lots of very rich, ahem, 'virile' young men strip off and run around the gardens. As one of only two available women there, I somewhat regretted the decision to drink in the end.

sorry for length. i'm stuck for poshness
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Wed 21 Sep 2005, 10:30, Reply)