A beginner’s guide to becoming posh

SIR – In answer to Alan Sabatini’s question (Letters, December 30), I believe you can have “poshness” thrust upon you.

As a boy I was teased for my stammer, and was sent by the doctor to have elocution lessons. As my stammer faded, I was then teased for sounding posh. Jonathan Selby

Richmond, Surrey SIR – David Dimbleby got off lightly when John Humphrys described him as posh. Mr Humphrys, being Welsh, could have called him “one of the crachach” (snobs). Patricia Andrews

Penarth, Glamorgan

SIR – The Liverpool branch (by marriage) of my family believe that we (from Southport) are posh because we never swear. Anne Whalley

Penzance, Cornwall

To the manor born: Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) with his valet Jeeves (Stephen Fry)