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- Posh: meaning and usage - WordReference Forums
Posh Supposedly, this acronym was printed on first-class tickets issued by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company going from England to India Unfortunately for this excellent story, no tickets with Posh stamped on them have been found and company records reveal no sign of the phrase Posh dates back to at least 1867 in the sense of meaning a dandy or fop The best guess as
- Accents: differences between posh and SSBE - WordReference Forums
Actually, my interest in the topic stems from the book English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today by Geoff Lindsey The change that happened -as he describes it- mainly in the sixties seems huge to me However, he doesn’t seem to distinguish between SSBE and upper-class or posh accents of today
- Job title for those who work in cafes | WordReference Forums
A side note on barista: while I agree that in AmE it is commonly used in the context described above, there are also people who find it a bit posh, as you say, for the job it describes I don't know whether they are in the majority, but unless you are applying for a coffee-making job, I wouldn't use it This is a purely personal opinion
- Posh, poshy, classy. | WordReference Forums
Hi Have "posh" and "poshy" [EDIT: sometimes] a pejorative meaning or sense? On the other hand, "classy" seems to be considered a synonym of "poshy" according to some dictionaries I thought "classy" could have a pejorative meaning but depending on the context Are there any English-speaking
- a posh school – a boarding school | WordReference Forums
It was not only a posh school, it was a posh boarding school, so even posher It is generally, and mostly correctly, assumed that boarding schools are socially and financially exclusive
- Posh Accent Dialect - WordReference Forums
2) Posh , can be also tranlated as Sifrino-a , but this term in particular is only applicable to people On the other hand, if I had to call posh to one of the accents spoken in venezuela, I believe and dare say, Andino accent might be our so-called posh accent It comes from Los Andes, a vast region located in the Southwest part of the country
- All dialects: posh - WordReference Forums
Hello How would you say this word in all dialects (Posh?) Meaning (something that is posh looks expensive and attractive?) For example A posh home hotel restaurant Thanks
- Bless you! [after sneezing] | WordReference Forums
Hi everybody! :) I would like to know if it is common to say "Bless you!" to somebody who is sneezing In France we do say it when we want to be polite
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