What does RP stand for?

Received Pronunciation (BBC English)

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I can see the point of "posh", but we do get rather too much of received pronunciation from people who tell us how to live our lives and a posh accent can be divisive, even in the school playground.

What we say matters

I can see the point of 'posh', but we do get rather too much of received pronunciation from people who tell us how to live our lives and a posh accent can be divisive, even in the school playground.

Talk the talk; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk

95 Hardcover PE1137 This is a historical study of Received Pronunciation among educated English speakers in England.

How educated English speak English; pronunciation as social behaviour

But while "the Queen's English" -- or received pronunciation -- is still taught in schools, Americanisms are creeping in, not just in business, as US films, food, fashion and music find favour with young Indians.

Indians look to America for a new accent on English

Received pronunciation, or Queen's English, won 20 per cent support.

NEWS

Musically, this is pleasurable, proficient stuff--punchy and catchy with winsome vocals from Lou Watts and, on 'RIP RP', a hymnal farewell to the tyrannies of received pronunciation.

The Boy Bands Have Won

Dr Lance Workman, who led the research at Bath Spa University, said times had changed since the days when Received Pronunciation was seen as the language of the elite.

Put the accent on the region's speech; What's in an accent? Well, the ...

The Yorkshire accent is rated as the most intelligent-sounding, beating received pronunciation, the accent of royalty and public school alumni, for the first time.

Yorkshire named top twang as Brummie brogue comes bottom