| ▲ | switch007 3 days ago | |
> if we can understand one another, what's the problem? The accent is just being used a heuristic of where you're from, which is the actual judgement. Posh = not from round here. Northerners are famously insular and protective of their communities (I love them for it but I think it can go a bit far sometimes) | ||
| ▲ | Ichthypresbyter 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
>Posh = not from round here. Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it with "alone" think that the other pronunciation is the "posh" one. [0]https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish... | ||
| ▲ | heresie-dabord 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Would you say that the usage of "posh" has drifted significantly to the third meaning? | ||