you see the posers around Leicester Square - well, the whole of the West End and Soho really - of a Thursday night, too

I'll go Faldagious seeing as we're in Q&A..

Wouldn't these be poseurs, Cap?

I used to think of this spelling as nothing more than pretentious (or posey even ), but maybe it does have its uses.

Then again, check out the etymology of poseur here:
http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/p8etym.htm


Edit: I think this makes poseur an autological word -
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=27770