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Britain under the Microscope – Posh

• What does posh mean?
o Positive – expensive and high quality
▪ Posh restaurant/car/clothes
o Negative – describing someone as posh.
▪ He is really posh.
▪ Posh accent
• How do you know if someone is posh?
o There was a survey in 2021 and these are the top 10 signs.
▪ You went to boarding school.
▪ You have antiques and family heirlooms.
▪ You have a wine cellar.
▪ You have paintings of your ancestors.
▪ You never discuss money.
▪ You call your parents “mummy” and “daddy” when you are an adult.
▪ You have a family coat of arms.
▪ You ride horses.
▪ Your dinner parties are catered.

Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hello, 安澜.
Hi Lulu. Hi, everyone.
So let me propose a topic. Okay.
This is a question that has been bugging me for ages.
There's one word in British culture that I find very difficult to translate correctly or accurately into Chinese. This is the word posh, p-o-s-h. I know some of you listening to this show, you probably think Lulu you're a translator, easy, just look it up online and dictionary. But it's not so much I don't know the word because that has so much cultural connotation.
Yes, the idea of posh really changes its meaning constantly.
So first things first, if you look it up in English-Chinese dictionary, ‘posh’ probably can be translated into上流社会的,优雅的, things like that. But it has so many more meanings. The first question I'm gonna ask you is posh a good word or a bad word.
It depends.
I knew it.
So for example, you use the Chinese word 优雅 which is more elegant in English. Now we could describe a place as posh, so a posh restaurant, a posh car, posh clothes. That just means it's expensive, it's high quality, fancy, it's fancy, it's luxurious, maybe. But it's when you describe somebody as posh that becomes a bit negative.
 If I say 安澜 is really posh.
I would not take that as a compliment.
So if you say someone is really posh, they have posh accent, what you’re doing is you're being a little bit negative.
You're saying they're pretentious.
Pretty much.
就是有点装. 对吧？装着高大上的感觉.
Pretentious and also snobbish as well.
Snobbish means... meaning you look down on other people, you think you're better. But keep in mind. Posh is very subtle. If you use it to describe things, locations, it's good, it means luxurious, expensive; but use it to describe people usually quite negative, it focuses more on snobbery and pretentious.
Yes, that's right.
But that still hasn't answered the question. What is posh? Seriously, what is... well I know you're not.
I'm not, very much, common as Muck.
What is posh? Is it just higher class?
Mostly, yes. Now to be posh is not just about money. Is you have a certain family background, you have a certain identity around kind of where you live, what you do and also the people that you hang out with.
It still sounds really vague. I mean if only there’s some sort of criteria.
Funny you should say that, there was actually a survey in 2021 on how do you know if someone is posh？
Okay, let's hear that.
So these are the top 10 signs that someone is posh.
大家听听这个英国人自己评选出来的10条, 这10条如果你都中了或者中了绝大多数, 你就是英国人眼里的posh. So let's hear it.
So number one, you went to boarding school.
Isn't boarding school just when you actually live in school on campus就是寄宿学校. In China boarding school is just... boarding is just a function.
Yeah, no, in the UK, boarding school or private school is incredibly posh because they're very expensive.