Posh people use the word ‘extraordinary’ in EVERY conversation

[HermioneMakepeace]

Has anyone else noticed this or AIBU?

Oooh I love tremendous, thank you for that one!
Also marvellous. Is that a posh person word?

Or when they say the phrase 'oh really to something instead of 'oh no'.

They used to say it in Red Dwarf. "Oooooooh, extraordinary!"

To be clear, my first response was a bit tongue in cheek.

I honestly don't know the standard criteria for 'posh'. It just seems to be whatever the speaker wants it to mean/thinks it means.

I use some of these words, including extraordinary. If 'super' is posh, then dc is Poshy Mcposhface because it's used here all the time.

Hilarious is another..... sometimes just on its own, as a sentence

Posh people use lots of superlatives!

Also deeply.

As in "I find it deeply boring" or "Its deeply surprising to me".

Etc.

I disagree about super. My Australian and American friends use it all the time. They aren't posh.

Jeepers - it really is quite extraordinary ,good gosh ! I am actually rather shocked at all this chatter .

Luxury is the most overused phrase that I hear.
Have you noticed that all Xmas food and new build homes are luxurious ?

I'm deeply shocked to discover all these words that are 'posh' and therefore unavailable to the proles. So much extraordinary vocabulary unavailable to us ordinaries.

How frightfully repetitive!

No one has not noticed this. Though I notice when their offspring use the word 'like' in every sentence.

What an extraordinary observation. I aint posh.

Such a fabulous thread! You’re an angel for starting it!

@cakeandchampagne.. I so hate that "you're an angel/star".. What they really mean is "well done for doing that boring task, you complete mug. Now let me add insult to injury by patronising you".

I like terribly for very. Terribly good, terribly clever.

Eeeh, do they bollocks.