This change is not universal for British English and traditionally is not considered a feature of Received Pronunciation.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

West African English tends to be syllable-timed, and its phoneme inventory is much simpler than that of Received Pronunciation ; this sometimes affects mutual intelligibility with native varieties of English.

In 1909, Jones wrote the short Pronunciation of English, a book which he later radically revised.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

* Jones, D. 1909 ), " The Pronunciation of English ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) is generally viewed as a 19th century development and is not reflected in North American English dialects, which are based on 18th century English.

The most distinctive influences on New Zealand English have come from Australian English, British English in Southern England, Irish English, Scottish English, the prestige Received Pronunciation, and Māori .< ref >

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) is the standard accent of Standard English in Great Britain, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms.

It is important not to confuse the notion of Received Pronunciation, as a standard accent, with the standard variety of the English language used in England that is given names such as " Standard English ", " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " or " BBC English ".

In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary ( 1917 ) he named the accent " Public School Pronunciation ", but for the second edition in 1926 he wrote " In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation ( abbreviation RP ), for want of a better term.

According to Fowler's Modern English Usage ( 1965 ), the correct term is " the Received Pronunciation ".

The extended versions of the Oxford English Dictionary give Received Pronunciation guidelines for each word.

The Cambridge-published English Pronouncing Dictionary ( aimed at those learning English as a foreign language ) uses the term " BBC Pronunciation " on the basis that the name " Received Pronunciation " is " archaic " and that BBC news-presenters no longer suggest high social class and privilege to their listeners.

* Modern English Poetry online at bartleby. com ( contains " An Astrologer's Song ", " The Conundrum of the Workshops ", " Gunga Din ", and " Return ")

* Free English Workshops ( The British Council ): A series of 4 free English workshops were conducted on the topics of ' Guiding Children in Reading ', ' Learning English Online ', ' Singlish vs Standard English ' and ' Presentation Skills '.

* English Workshops for Young Executives ( Ascend Education Centre ): Ascend Education Centre conducted a series of 8 workshops targeting young working executives.

Workshops offered vary from crafts to personal development to languages such as English and Nahuatl to painting to chess as well as local traditions.

* Cricket, a translation into English of the Polish poem Chrząszcz by Jan Brzechwa

Prince Jayakarta's army and the English were defeated by the Dutch, in part owing to the timely arrival of Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( J. P. Coen ).

Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981.

Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term refers to the Dutch nickname and surname Janneke ( from Jan and the diminutive-eke, meaning " Little John " or Johnny in Dutch ), Anglicized to Yankee ( in Dutch, the letter " J " is pronounced the same as the English consonantal " Y " sound ) and " used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times ".

A few Barbary corsairs, such as the Dutch Jan Janszoon and the English John Ward ( Muslim name Yusuf Reis ), were renegade European privateers who had converted to Islam.

" Burning English ships " by Jan van Leyden.

* Schouten, Jan and de Wit, Bob ( 1960 ) Gouda ( translated from the Dutch by Flora van Os-Gammon ) W. van Hoeve, The Hague OCLC 1492541, in English

James Scott commanding the Third Anglo-Dutch War | English against the Dutch in 1672, Jan Wyck.

Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck ( English: Jan van Riebeeck High School ) is an Afrikaans high school in Cape Town.

In 1946 an English hardcover edition, copyright Jan Förlag, was published by Victor Pettersons Bokindustriaktiebolag Stockholm, Sweden.

** 1884 Nov, Dec, 1885 Jan, in The English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 2

In addition to his five solo albums and 14 studio albums with Journey, his work also includes: a pair of albums with keyboardist Jan Hammer, short-term collaborations with Sammy Hagar ( HSAS and Planet Us ) and Paul Rodgers, stints with Bad English ( a supergroup that featured Journey ’ s Jonathan Cain and Deen Castronovo and Jonathan Cain's former Babys bandmates John Waite and Ricky Phillips ) and Hardline ( which also featured Deen Castronovo ).

Johannes Janssonius ( 1588, Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, Amsterdam ) ( born Jan Janszoon, in English usually Jan Jansson ) was a Dutch cartographer who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.

The Dutch writer Jan de Hartog wrote numerous nautical novels, first in Dutch, then in English.

Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp.

Cockburn married in 1981 Janet Elisabeth (" Jan ") Montefiore ( 14 November 1948 ), an English Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, daughter of Rt.

Jan Antonin was forced to flee from Czechoslovakia after the invasion by the Nazis, Tomas ' son Thomas manager of the buying department of the English Bata Company was unable to return again until after the war when the Baťa company was nationalized.

Johannes Crellius ( Polish: Jan Crell, English John Crell ) ( 26 July Hellmitzheim 1590 – Raków 1633 ) was a Polish and German theologian.

There was a brief flowering of English progressive folk in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group such as Comus, Dando Shaft, The Trees, Spirogyra, Forest, and Jan Dukes De Grey, but commercial success was elusive for these bands and most had broken up or moved in very different directions by about 1973.

Wenedyk ( in English: Venedic ) is a naturalistic constructed language, created by the Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen ( who also co-created the international auxiliary language Slovianski ).

At the time it already had a Gymnasium school led for a period by Jan Amos Komenský ( known in English as Comenius ), a Bohemian educator who was a bishop of the Unity of the Brethren.

According to modern English physician and writer Jan Bondeson, " Marocco was a small, muscular horse with remarkable litheness and agility ; he also proved particularly intelligent and easy to educate.

* Remembering Imam Hussain RA, Friday 9th Jan, Manchester, Program in English!