"Posh" French

It is certainly possible to speak of (the equivalent of) "received pronunciation" in French, if one means an accent which is not identifiably regional. But I have been asked about "posh" accents in French - the equivalent of people saying "trizers" or "hice" in English for "trousers" and "house". Would anyone like to give equivalent French examples? Or does the phenomenon not really exist?

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Permalink Reply by Jean Dervin on May 6, 2014 at 11:16pm

The "mmm" is just an indication of hesitation, isn't it? "Mmm - c'est possible" or Mmm "ça se peut". (And that's an interesting expression in itself.)