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Does this sound 'posh'?

All my housemates think i'm posh; im from Nottingham and they are from Leeds and Wigan.

I would say duvet, they would say quilt, I would say twitchel, they would say ginnel. How does this make me posh!? I really don't understand!

Someone enlighten me please :biggrin:

Reply 1

=nuke=

11

Doesn't sound posh to me. But I don't know what twitchel OR ginnel mean. :redface:

Reply 2

Kittennffc

OP

15

Lol, I didn't know what a ginnel was when they said it either! Its just like an alley way, or passage way type thing.

Reply 3

ExitMusic

9

no its not really in a higher register or "posh"

just tell them the meaning of the word "synonym"

Reply 4

browzer-911

5

not posh at all. never heard twitchel or ginnel before. but think its what we call an alley, or 10 years ago a jettey

not posh at all!

A quilt is different though isn't it? It's quilted, whereas a duvet can just be a thick blanket, so to speak.

Reply 7

pixikicks

Though I never use the word quilt. But then again I never have reason to.

Reply 8

Kittennffc

OP

15

A quilt and a duvet is the same thing in my opinion.

Reply 9

Steve Stifler

The only way to tell if a girl is truly posh is if she offers her hoop on the first date. If yes, then she's posh.

OP

Her hoop?

really hard to tell what exactly 'posh' means, i googled it and it came out as victoria beckham

Reply 12

Steve Stifler

Kittennffc

Her hoop?

I love the innocent ones.

Reply 13

Kittennffc

OP

15

Ha! Are you from England?

Posh, erm, I can't seem to describe it..help me out here someone!

Reply 14

Gio

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Kittennffc

Ha! Are you from England?

Posh, erm, I can't seem to describe it..help me out here someone!

Im from hong kong, but i've been to a bording school in the past 5 years. I know what they mean when people describe someone who is posh - nice cars big houses etc. But in my boarding school, there are loads of kids whose parents are really wealthy but the kids aren't that 'posh'. So does 'posh' refer to a lifestyle, like playing cricket in summer, rugby in september and instead of saying dinner, they say supper? or is it someone who's just rich ie. is that chav who won the lottery a few times considered as 'posh'?

Reply 15

Scipio

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Gio

Im from hong kong, but i've been to a bording school in the past 5 years. I know what they mean when people describe someone who is posh - nice cars big houses etc. But in my boarding school, there are loads of kids whose parents are really wealthy but the kids aren't that 'posh'. So does 'posh' refer to a lifestyle, like playing cricket in summer, rugby in september and instead of saying dinner, they say supper? or is it someone who's just rich ie. is that chav who won the lottery a few times considered as 'posh'?

An upper middle class person, so your first description fits the bill.

Reply 16

Kittennffc

OP

15

I didn't mean any offense Gio :smile:

Just made me laugh that Victoria Beckham came up!

I wouldn't consider my family 'wealthy', we certainly aren't poor and we don't go without, but we are just normal! Perhaps its because my housemates are more Northern than me, and consider me a bit of a posh Southerner, even though i'm Midlands :biggrin:

Reply 17