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.

The name " BBC Pronunciation " has been used by other writers.

The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis frequently criticises the name " Received Pronunciation " on his blog: he has called it " invidious ", a " ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term " and argued that American scholars find the term " quite curious ".

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Pronunciation of the town's name varies depending on street.

Pronunciation of the name Pencoed is always the cause of some argument within the town.

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* Nee-Tahi-Buhn Band ( Pronunciation: ′ knee-tie-boon ′, Nee-Tahi-Buhn is the name for François Lake, and means “ it fills at one end and empties at the other ”, therefore formerly called François Lake Tribe, In 1960 the Decker Lake, François Lake, Maxim Lake and Skin Tyee Bands merged to form the Omineca Band.

Pronunciation also varies ; there is no approved " correct " spelling and pronunciation.

Pronunciation varies between the standard Molde and the rural Molle.

Pronunciation varies from country to country and from region to region, just as English pronunciation varies from one place to another.

Pronunciation of the word " Kaurna " varies slightly by the background and origin of the speaker ; the most common is English ( non-rhotic ), sometimes, native or, less often,.

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.

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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 ".

A mixture of London speech with elements from East Midlands, Middlesex and Essex, became known as Received Pronunciation.

Non-RP Britons abroad may modify their pronunciation to something closer to Received Pronunciation in order to be understood better by people unfamiliar with the diversity of British accents.

Native English speakers ( white, Indian and Coloured or Cape Coloured ) in South Africa have an accent that generally resembles British Received Pronunciation ( modified with varying degrees of Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans ).

A centering diphthong is one that begins with a more peripheral vowel and ends with a more central one, such as,, and in Received Pronunciation or and in Irish.

Pronunciation has shifted to a hard TH, consistent with the consonant's pronunciation in the multitude of words of Greek origin assimilated into English by scholars during the Enlightenment and invented by scientists and engineers during the scientific and technological boom of the 20th century.

Pronunciation rhymes with " lemon ".

Pronunciation of lieutenant is generally split between the forms and, with the former generally associated with the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, and the latter generally associated with the United States.

But lexical set BATH ( words such as " rather ", " dance ", and " half ") patterns with PATH in some accents including Received Pronunciation but with TRAP in others including General American.

In English, only function words begin with voiced th-( see Pronunciation of English th ).

Some Indians speak English with an accent very close to a Standard British ( Received Pronunciation ) accent ( though not the same ); others lean toward a more ' vernacular ', native-tinted, accent for their English speech.

For example in the United Kingdom, Received Pronunciation of the English language is associated with the traditional upper class.

Interviews show him speaking with a Received Pronunciation accent, despite coming from a working-class background ( during Euro 96, much was made in the English media of the difference between his accent and the unabashed Cockney tones of Terry Venables, his successor who also came from Dagenham, and what this said about social changes in England ).

The Received Pronunciation of Loughton is ( the " ou " rhymes with " ouch ", the " gh " is silent ), in contrast to the similarly-spelt neighbouring areas of Broughton () and Woughton ().

Pronunciation of the Glory Be to the Father ( Gloria patri ) in Latin with a strong American English accent.

His biting wit involved him in many controversies with well-known contemporaries, such as the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Johann Heinrich Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation called forth a powerful satire, Über die Pronunciation der Schöpse des alten Griechenlandes.

In the British Isles, particularly in England and Wales, it is often associated with: the " Received Pronunciation " accent ( there are several variants of the accent ) and UKSE ( United Kingdom Standard English ), which refers to grammar and vocabulary.

This is the difference between the British Received Pronunciation and American pronunciation of bath and dance.

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

The long vowels, which include monophthongs and diphthongs, mostly correspond to the tense vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation ( RP ) as well as its centring diphthongs.

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

In BrE, both irregular and regular forms are current, but for some words ( such as smelt and leapt ) there is a strong tendency towards the irregular forms, especially by users of Received Pronunciation.

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 ).

* Jones, D. and M. Trofimov ( 1923 ), " The Pronunciation of Russian ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

Pronunciation of Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese, while grammar and syntax are based on modern vernacular written Chinese.

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.

Although the resulting Academies for Correct Pronunciation ( 正音書院, Zhèngyīn Shūyuàn ) were short-lived, the decree did spawn a number of textbooks that give some insight into the ideal pronunciation.

Although there is nothing intrinsic about RP that marks it as superior to any other variety, sociolinguistic factors have given Received Pronunciation particular prestige in parts of Britain.

The introduction of the term Received Pronunciation is usually credited to Daniel Jones.

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.

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