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> 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 = n
by switch007 1y 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 1y ago>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-accent-maps/ https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish...
- heresie-dabord 1y agoWould you say that the usage of "posh" has drifted significantly to the third meaning? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/posh https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/posh