to think that inverse snobbery is just as unacceptable as the usual kind?

[StuckinTheMiddlewithYou]

As in, bullying people at work for being "posh" (occasionally using words of more than two syllables)?

That is an extreme example I know however I do see many people with such a chip on their sholders that they cannot resist directing at anybody they see as "posh". I find it really very sad.

AIBU?

This thread has struck a chord with me. I am originally from Surrey, but have lived in Yorkshire for over 30 years. I am still considered "posh", (but not in any derogatory manner) just because I don't have a local accent.

I can imagine. Living and working in London and Kent for the last 12 years or so I have variously been considered posh because I don't have a southern regional accent or a figure of amusement because I have Northern Vowels.

For most of my time at primary school I was teased for being, among other things "posh, a snob, a show-off, a swot" then I changed primary schools when we moved house (about 5 miles away) and some girls teased me because of my accent made me a bit "common", apparently.

You can't win.

To clarify - I may speak correctly but I am as poor as a church mouse.
'Champagne taste on a tap water budget' that's me! I love any accent by the way, I think they add character to a voice.