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Ironic word the royals would never use - except as a joke, according to an expert

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It's safe to say that in some respects, the Royal Family aren't like the rest of us. From living in palaces to having access to the world's finest jewellery - their lives are sometimes a world away from the norm.

And it's not just how they live that can be unusual - how they speak can also sound different to the average person. That's because according to author and social anthropologist Kate Fox, there are words that the English upper classes - like the royals - tend to avoid using.

And one of them is ironically the word posh. Writing in her book, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, Kate outlines that the upper class would never say posh and instead use the word 'smart', reports My London.

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