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Research shows our understanding of ‘posh’ words is all wrong

By Natalie Braber, Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Rhys Sandow, Senior Research Associate, linguistics, University of Sussex

We found that the usage of supposedly upper-class words varied, but not in a way that correlated with social class.

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