HOW POSH ARE YOU?
If Nicky Haslam’s guide is anything to go by, we’re all common!
True story. The first time my mum heard my future husband speak she uttered the immortal phrase, ‘Ooh, don’t he talk nice?’ Like I’d brought home one of the landed gentry who owned most of Buckinghamshire rather than a bloke from a council estate in, er, Margate. He didn’t talk ‘posh’. He just spoke slightly different to my lovely, cockney mum. And of course, the perception of an east London accent sounding ‘common’ echoes to this day. A combination of Dick Van Dyke meets the Krays with a
