
581. Posh or not posh? (Part 1) Understanding Posh People and Posh Accents
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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Burke's Peerage
There's actually a list of peerages, those hereditary titles where all the family connections are published. You can get it online at www.berkspearage.com. A knighthood by the way is an honorary title given by the Queen. It doesn't make you part of the nobility or the royalty. So if you don't have those connections you're not really truly posh but you might be described as posh because people might just judge you to be from a certain background. Here are a few other signifiers of poshness. We've got education that's the school that the person went to and also top university educations from Oxbridge colleges. Also wealth
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