Less posh?! leah666 let me tell you, I live in a tearoom and the only people who pronounce it with a /@U/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "bone") are the elderly, upper-class "I own a pony, several classic cars and a villa in Spain", hoighty-toighty, holier-than-thou, "I never go to the toilet" upperclass folk out for a drive in the countryside to mingle with the peasants, because that's what normal folk do, isn't it, what what? The other way with the /Q/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "gone") is how the unpretentious people say it.