Formal ways to ask

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And posh British people just love to use the word well.

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Are you well?

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I'm well, I hope you're well.

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Is he well?

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Are they well?

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Are we well?

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Honestly, they use it so much.

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When I go to the occasion of posh event,

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I have a lot of internal laughter by the amount to times

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that well is said.

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Are you well?

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Is your family well?

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These are all fairly formal ways of asking, how are you?

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Number three, now this one is almost too posh for me.

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It's, how do you fare?

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How are you faring?

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I must say I haven't heard this said in a long time,

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but if you want to seem uber, uber posh, be my guest,

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as long as you're well.

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The next few are more business-related.

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They're things that your boss might say to you.

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Number four is, how are things coming along?

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And this implies that there is some sort of progress

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to be made.

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Maybe you're working on a project or you've got a big job

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going on.

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How are you getting on?

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How are things coming along?

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How much progress is being made?

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Number five, very similar, how everything coming together?

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Implies that maybe there were implies that maybe

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there were problems at the beginning but now everything

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is coming together nicely.

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As a good response you could say,

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oh, things are coming together nicely, thank you.

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In Britain especially, we do like to talk about health