Ten words that prove you aren't posh !

In the sixties some language professor devised the different vocabularies the "U" upper class people use , and the "Non-U" used by non upper class.
How do you do in the article below ?
I am definitely peasant class
Seriously... - Seriously... - Ten words that prove you aren't posh - BBC Radio 4

 

U :rasp:

 

I know I'm at the bottom because i can't spell the posh words
And when i was younger i used to stand in S_ _ _ alot
I know where i stand

 

What a load of c#*p i say about 6/7 of the 'U' words and I'm defo not posh!

 

I smell bull.. common as muck me. "School dinner" will never be school lunch, same for Sunday/cooked dinner, at least where I'm from, no matter where your standing on the classes scale. Sofa is also a common everyday word, settee is considered posh round 'ere.. and what if you say "Hiya" instead of hello/hey? *face palm* Dialect not taken into account, I presume.

 

Yep! school dinners where I come an all and I say "hiya" but there's no h in mine and alright! How you doin... No h's in anything I say

 

Hi @Sonya No h but plenty of t' I'm guessing.

G.

 

Yeah course PG
:bigthumb::giggle:

 

I guess I'm not posh either. When I say "aunt" I pronounce it without the u. Must be because I stole it to put in my "Canuck" self descriptiom

 

Did any one else notice ... the Non-U's vocabulary was quite ... American?

We would never have noticed

Thank goodness for small mercies then ... at least you say aitch and not the dreaded ...

































... haitch

 

I'm not posh but I do try to talk properly. My wife's family thought I was posh when they first met me.

My midday meal is my lunch. My dinner is my main cooked meal regardless of time of day. In our house we have lunch and tea. (tea uses fewer syllables and is therefore easier to say)

I lengthen my a sounds in Castle, grass, path etc. I'm not sure why because I didn't speak like that when I was at school.

Why can't you ask for a Latte. You would look pretty stupid standing at the counter asking for coffee. It is what it is. (That's one of my favourite sayings by the way). I don't say "I'm going out for a latte" who does?

One of my wife's expressions I love is "I shink so". (I should think so). I try to use it as often as I can.



G.

 

Not really because they then ask you which type would you like





































Totally throws them when you reply: All of them!

 

Whatever drink I order I always ask for small. That throws them because small isn't an option. I asked for a small drink in McDonalds(I think) to be told "we don't do small only medium and large". I replied I will have the one that isn't large.



G.