Who is posher?

[Alomiakoda]

Me or Showmet?

[showmet]

Is this a backwards class war you're starting Bob?:eek: Anyway you don't need to be posh to have class:p

[Smartie.uk]

i notice that im not included in this vote.. thru fear of the unfair competition no doubt.

[showmet]

Interesting that the definition of posh according to my OED is "smart, stylish, first-rate"... why does the word seem to have class connotations for vernacular use?

So I am either winning or losing, I'm not entirely sure!

[Jaz Delorean]

Alomiakoda is definately posher.... :p

[Alomiakoda]

Alomiakoda is definately posher.... :p
Shush you! You're bloody posher than me with your down south accent tooo :p

Everyone picks on mee :(

[Alomiakoda]

Interesting that the definition of posh according to my OED is "smart, stylish, first-rate"... why does the word seem to have class connotations for vernacular use
It's because POSH was used to descirbe the people travelling on ships who had money and could afford the shady side of the boat:

Port Out, Starboard Home.

All the common folk had to but up with being sunburnt on the sunny side :p

[Jaz Delorean]

i don't have an accent! just because i'm from the south, doesn't make me posh. Sal is posh!! you're the one with the accent!! :p

[Alomiakoda]

Am not! You and Luchi are both reeeeeeeally posh :p

[showmet]

It's official... Bob is very posh:eek:

[SharyBobbins]

It's because POSH was used to descirbe the people travelling on ships who had money and could afford the shady side of the boat:

Port Out, Starboard Home.

All the common folk had to but up with being sunburnt on the sunny side :p
So the common folk had nice tans and the rich people were white as bed sheets. lol

[Claire]

tis true:eek:

I must be common cos I am tanned ish... spanish irish.

But I do talk posh for a yorkshire girl that is:)

[showmet]

But I do talk posh for a yorkshire girl that is:)
I can still hardly understand a word you say :p

[Ellie-Rose]

Some say I'm posh.. but I'm not convinced

[showmet]

Some say I'm posh.. but I'm not convinced
Not a chance:p

[Alomiakoda]

Some say I'm posh.. but I'm not convinced
YOu bloody are :p

[Peace-Phoenix]

I don't think anyone's as posh as Kat, and since she's not here she can't defend herself....

[PinkMoon]

Sal

Im always around when my name needs defending...
im not bloody well posh!
geez the cheek...

[showmet]

It's because POSH was used to descirbe the people travelling on ships who had money and could afford the shady side of the boat:

Port Out, Starboard Home.

All the common folk had to but up with being sunburnt on the sunny side :pI knew it ... this is merely myth ... in terms of its etymology there is no class connotation to the word "posh", originally just meant smart or natty.

The term posh is used particularly in Britain to describe those with social pretensions. Popular Folk etymology (http://www.fact-index.com/f/fo/folk_etymology.html) states the expression originated from the phrase "Port Out, Starboard Home", referred to the most desirable cabin locations on ships travelling to and from British colonies in the Far East.
However, extensive searching of shipping company records and tickets from that period has failed to reveal any evidence for this claim. The fact that this folk etymology is only recorded 17 years after the terms earliest known appearance (in the 25th September 1918 issue of Punch (http://www.fact-index.com/p/pu/punch.html)) also lends weight to the theory that this etymology is merely apocryphal.
http://www.fact-index.com/p/po/posh.html (http://www.fact-index.com/p/po/posh.html)

[Alomiakoda]

You're just annoyed because everyone voted for you :p

[showmet]

I've met five of the people who've posted in this thread and I have ten votes .... hmm!

[showmet]

The earliest example of posh in print comes from a cartoon in Punch, 25 September 1918. It shows an RAF officer talking to his mother and has this bit of dialogue: "Oh, yes, Mater, we had a posh time of it down there."—"Whatever do you mean by 'posh', Gerald?"—"Don't you know? It's slang for 'swish'"
http://www.m-w.com/help/faq/posh.htm

[Smartie.uk]

i think jon is " of high quality" that why i voted for him

[Carlos]

this is propostorus!

if anyone hear where realy posh they they would know that the posh would never use the word posh,... " posher" ... is way off!

now i would like to see a lttle less juvanility if u please.