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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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How to Be a Posh Speaker

Old-fashioned posh is like those old BBC accents or the Queen's accent. Modern posh young people might borrow certain words and features of colloquial speech from lower-class culture but there are still certain aspects of pronunciation that will reveal their poshness. It's parodies really well in a YouTube video called Gap Yarr which I'll deal with later on when we look at some examples of speech.

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