Faking a posh accent

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Do you agree that a lot of English women 'fake' a posh accent to try and sound more elegant/classy!

I don't believe they "fake it" as much as they seek to imitate the posh accent.

There is something ridiculous about people trying to copy or imitate a posh accent; they invariably make mistakes either with the accent or grammar which makes them sound so superficial and fake. Mrs Bucket (Bouquet) anyone?

Man, does Mrs. Bucket screw it up!

After 30 years of faking a Cockney accent, I feel no desire to fake a posh accent.

Always thought the ex-champ chris eubank had a heck of a commendable accent in this regard.

It's a fun question. The only ones who do that are those who think they are higher up in the stakes of their career, and I personally don't look my nose down at anyone, and those who do.. usually have an outward misplaced persona.. indulged by dowry-flirtatious interests that even their granny would approve of!
The ones you should watch out for are the Camilla types.. you can't get any worse than them, well you can actually.. Joanna Lumley.

In college I went to study in London for part of the time and tried after a while to fake the accent. Bad idea. I'd say something and the real Londoner would immediately respond (if they would respond at all) with, "What part of the States are you from, then?" Kind of like being on the spectrum. Doing whatever it takes to fake it sometimes, and often not quite being able to.

One of our professors mentioned an old London stereotype called the "Sloane Rangers," bored single women hanging around Sloane Square and similar places playing posh to try and attract men.

I can't say I've ever come across this. More often, I get mocked for appearing posh, when in fact I'm just a little more well spoken. I went to school with people who had elocution lessens, but that was training the way they speak, not faking to appear "classy".

When it comes to Americans imitating a "British" accent, esp. in film, you can spot it a mile away because it's just so awful.

On a side note, has anyone really used "classy" without irony in the last 20 years?

yes and no, some people with the accent sound artificial but i assume thats just because the posh accent seems so iconic, but a lot of women i know have thick north yorkshire accents, well selby accents....which is to be honest a bit how to put it......chavvy

There is no chav like the Manchester chav

What is your premise for thinking this, Jamesy? And why pick specifically on British women when there are men who are capable of such a thing, too? Personally I've never run across this -- if anything, for the past decade at least, the British seem to be embracing every natural accent BUT the "posh" one. Even genuinely "posh" people seem to want to Cockney-up their accent. Sounding posh in Britain today isn't cool anymore. In which case what the hell are you talking about? I don't get where this question is coming from. Think of Adele -- she's actually over-exaggerating her non-posh accent, trust me.

"Mrs Bucket" is an outdated phenomenon particularly in recent years.