Talk:Received Pronunciation

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Definition: British English accent that developed in educational institutions in the nineteenth century and is associated with the wealthy and powerful in the United Kingdom, rather than a geographic region, and which few British people actually use; 'refined' RP, even rarer, is colloquially referred to as 'posh'. [d] [e]

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I was looking at the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation. It distinguishes two types of RP:

narrower, posh, upper-class, old-style BBC English
broader, educated, present-day BBC English

Peter Jackson 09:29, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

During the proms season they played an archive clip of Sir Henry Wood, in which, despite being a Londoner, he used the "Northern" pronunciation of "chance". I wonder whether things were different even then. Peter Jackson (talk) 10:40, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

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