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Oh Chris! is that worse than 20 years in the workhouse :-)


http://www.gotoquiz.com/how_posh_are_you_2

how did this happen ... I even know how to ride a horse ...

'You are 2% posh! U R CHAV! I THINK YOU IS WELL COOL BRUV. If you want to be a posh person, one should begin by learning to speak English.'

and I can speak English better than whoever wrote that last sentence :-D

My mother - she was Isabella (known as Bella). However, after we moved to a different part of the county, her name became Belle! She was always referring to others as common.

I found an account after she died, written by a friend, of a Med cruise they had taken. Mother must have been in her glory -
friend referred to being at the Captain's cocktail party - it was wonderful but Belle must be used to all of this as her husband had been a sea captain!

Yes he was but never of a passenger ship and throwing cocktail parties.

I have so wanted to tell her that her g.father she was so proud of died in an asylum of syphillis. I did not find out until it was too late.

my oldest aunt ... her problem was that she was the eldest and remembered that the family once was a bit posh through the success of her great-grandfather in trade and his son's more genteel occupation ... until her father, my grandfather (the eldest child of the genteel chap, born in the 1890s), became the black sheep and then lost what money he had through bad investments

I have recently learned by finding a still-posh cousin of my dad whom he never knew ... he tells me (as if it were perfectly normal) that when my grandfather's father remarried in 1920, he and his new wife were known to his younger children and the new batch, and their children, as 'mater' and 'pater'

now beat that for posh ;)

I'll bet none of them knew that 'pater's' granddad died in the workhouse only 15 years before he was born ...

My friends parents had a green grocery shop. One customer tried so hard to be posh but always got it wrong. One day she asked in a very posh voice, for five lbs of potatoes one lb tomatoes, and a bunch of BANANOES. :-D :-D :-D

Lolol @ Ann

A new neighbour moved in and as soon as we met she behaved exactly like Mrs Bucket. What she had , her holidays her meals out, her soirees.

So I called her Mrs Bouquet. I must have mentioned her to another neighbour a couple of times.

To my embarrasment my neighbour saw her in her front garden one day and called her it.

I kept out of her way for a bit but ***** is a really lovely lady with a heart of gold.

:-D :-D :-D

a friend of mine who moved to an "up market" part of South Wales whereupon she changed her voice, pronouncing my name as "Enn" instead of "Ann" - her mother and father had previously been "our Mam" and "our Dad", but overnight they became Mummy and Daddy

She still made the most appalling faux pas gramatically - she was having problems with her chimley, and a boy they knew was receiving an absolute pickance for the job he was doing :-D :-D :-D :-D

Someone I know, described herself as a Housekeeper.

She was the cleaner.

I don't know why she is so snobby, she has nothing to be snobby about.

And there is no shame in being a cleaner!

not quite MY family, but my sister in law could qualify........

that was my mother in law to a tee
she was far to up her own butt :-D :-D

Do you have or have you had one of these types of people in your family?
I have two or three one of whom had changed her maiden name because she was ashamed of her council house upbringing, thinks she is better than us till I said no matter how many letters you have after your name you can't change who you are, but then I'm far to common to be her SISTER but I am proud of who I am. :-P