posh

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 Mark_Mandel at Dragonsys.com wrote:

}Aaron E. Drews <aaron at LING.ED.AC.UK> writes:
}
}>>>>>
}"polish", at least directly.  I personally find it more feasible that
}"port outward" etc.  "posh" still might have it's birth in Cockney rhyming
}slang.  I'll ask around, but there aren't many Cockney specialists here.
}<<<<<
}
}And as for the acronym... damn, I thought we had buried that a long time ago.

My comment should read polish->posh is more feasible thaN the acronym
(sorry for the typo).

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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