Posh School

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:50 pm

of course Sussex has an accent...

ask Christian, he's from Faygate (see "Facebook" topic in "Non CH").

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:14 pm

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
J.R. wrote:I rapidly lost my public school accent after leaving, and after working for plod became more working class.
Sorry, CH gave you a public school accent??? Surely not. At CH I got the mickey taken out of me for starting with a posh accent. I soon lost it!

I think my posh accent was enhanced - I had gone to prep school before I had gone to CH.

Interestingly at uni, there were some very sloaney types who had been to Eton, Cranleigh et al - who thought I was from the 'paupers' school' and most others thought I had gone to a 'posh' school because it was a boarding school! I couldn't win!

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:24 pm

and then when you try to explain the principles of the school I got accused of taking a place off some other kid in need! I really couldnt win when taking about CH either i was some person who went to a pauper's boarding school or i was posh for not going to 6th form college!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:36 pm

I found that I had thre basic accents thanks to CH.

1. A posh accent to be used when mixing with people from the upper classes

2. My home town accent

3. The non-distinct accent that can mix with any regional dialect

That is the greatest lesson I ever learned at CH, the ability to mix with any social group in the country without feeling out of place.

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:42 pm

what's your home town accent?

I can do posh when needed and Sussex the rest of the time and London now I've been here a few years (yuck but useful for communicatin' wiv locawls)

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:06 pm

Kitchen ofcourse

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:36 pm

how stupid, silly me

BTW do you smoke cigarettes?

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:37 am

Nah, its a filthy habit!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:06 am

Scone Lover wrote:I found that I had thre basic accents thanks to CH.

1. A posh accent to be used when mixing with people from the upper classes

2. My home town accent

3. The non-distinct accent that can mix with any regional dialect

That is the greatest lesson I ever learned at CH, the ability to mix with any social group in the country without feeling out of place.

I think I am much the same.

As to whether there is a Sussex accent, my father has quite a strong one, the rest of the family have less of one because of course we had more exposure to other accents.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:08 am

Passengers on the railway often ask my son what his accent is. I don't hear one - he loves confusing people by saying he comes from Islamabad - well he was born there!

FrogBoxed · Post by **FrogBoxed** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:44 pm

My Grandma has a thick Kentish accent. Some of my housemates at uni over the years accused her of being Australian!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:00 pm

Katharine wrote:Passengers on the railway often ask my son what his accent is. I don't hear one - he loves confusing people by saying he comes from Islamabad - well he was born there!

I can just see your son doing that Katharine, thanks for the laugh!

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:11 pm

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
J.R. wrote:I rapidly lost my public school accent after leaving, and after working for plod became more working class.
CH gave you a public school accent??? Surely not.

I've still got the posh one beaten into me at CH though apparently it has toned down a bit. (IMHO a tape recording of my voice is horrible)

I can also do a passable Belfast one - if there are people from Belfast for me to do a take-off.

cj · Post by cj » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:53 pm

I'm with Scone-boy on this one. I do develop a Kentish twang when I'm either drunk or very excited. But I can do a proper posh quite well when needs must.

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:02 am

My natural London accent comes out when the worse for wear as they say and when someone gets me angry. For some reason, everytime I have to do anything official/legal I do this imitation of a relief sergeant I knew at Bow Street nick in London.

The worst thing is that I pick up the accent of the area I live in.