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> I'm more amused that you think southern England is the posh part :-) Isn't that the stereotype? I thought London area is considered pretty posh. At least tha

> I'm more amused that you think southern England is the posh part :-) Isn't that the stereotype? I thought London area is considered pretty posh. At least that is what I am getting from most popular culture. Of course both dimensions, class and location are partly independent but there is some overlap. For example, this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BVgPeZR-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BVgPeZR-Y (Posh family reacts to northern nanny | The Catherine Tate Show) > Though on a more serious note, we use shorter vowel sounds in the north (in the north we say 'bath', southerners say 'baarth') which can make us harder to understand to those whom English isn't a first language. Yeah, as a non native speaker I need to concentrate way more because it feels faster. I love the accents though, really fun to listen to.

roywiggins 5y ago
Cockney and MLE (a modern multicultural London accent/dialect/whatever it's officially called) are non-posh southern England accents. See the "in popular culture" for examples of MLE (Eggsy from Kingsman for example). Working-class London accents, not posh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English
hencq 5y ago
> Isn't that the stereotype? I thought London area is considered pretty posh. I think what you're getting at is Estuary English, which is spoken around the estuary of the river Thames. It's pretty close to Received Pronunciation which is sort of the 'standard' English as it used to be spoken on the BBC. And probably what most Americans would classify as a posh English accent or even as just 'British English'. London also has Cockney though, which I don't think anyone would say is posh.
- toyg 5y ago
  > London also has Cockney though, which I don't think anyone would say is posh. Oi, guv, you sayin' East Enders geezers don't speak nice, ye? You havin' a laff, mate? ... Cockney would make me laugh so much, if it weren't for the fact that "certain people" tend to make it thicker when they want to glass you.

roywiggins 5y ago

Cockney and MLE (a modern multicultural London accent/dialect/whatever it's officially called) are non-posh southern England accents. See the "in popular culture" for examples of MLE (Eggsy from Kingsman for example). Working-class London accents, not posh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English

hencq 5y ago

> Isn't that the stereotype? I thought London area is considered pretty posh. I think what you're getting at is Estuary English, which is spoken around the estuary of the river Thames. It's pretty close to Received Pronunciation which is sort of the 'standard' English as it used to be spoken on the BBC. And probably what most Americans would classify as a posh English accent or even as just 'British English'. London also has Cockney though, which I don't think anyone would say is posh.

toyg 5y ago
> London also has Cockney though, which I don't think anyone would say is posh. Oi, guv, you sayin' East Enders geezers don't speak nice, ye? You havin' a laff, mate? ... Cockney would make me laugh so much, if it weren't for the fact that "certain people" tend to make it thicker when they want to glass you.