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

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.

This example, in slightly different guises, is important in algebraic geometry, topology and projective geometry where it may be denoted variously by PG ( 2, R ), RP < sup > 2 </ sup >, or P < sub > 2 </ sub >( R ) among other notations.

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.

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.

However, since the 1960s, a greater permissiveness towards allowing regional English varieties has taken hold in education and the media in Britain ; in some contexts conservative RP is now perceived negatively.

The study of RP is concerned exclusively with pronunciation, while study of the standard language is also concerned with matters such as grammar, vocabulary and style.

RP is an accent ( a form of pronunciation ) and a register, rather than a dialect ( a form of vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation ).

Anyone using RP will typically speak Standard English although the reverse is not necessarily true ( e. g. the standard language may be pronounced with a regional accent, such as a Scottish or Yorkshire Accent ; but it is very unlikely that someone speaking RP would use it to speak the Scots or the Yorkshire Dialect ).

RP is often believed to be based on the Southern accents of England, but it actually has most in common with the Early Modern English dialects of the East Midlands.

Beverley Collins and Inger Mees use the phrase " Non-Regional Pronunciation " for what is often otherwise called RP, and reserve the phrase " Received Pronunciation " for the " upper-class speech of the twentieth century ".

: Standard Southern British ( where ' Standard ' should not be taken as implying a value judgment of ' correctness ') is the modern equivalent of what has been called ' Received Pronunciation ' (' RP ').

Faced with the difficulty of defining RP, many writers have tried to distinguish between different sub-varieties: A. C. Gimson in earlier editions of his book proposed Conservative, General, and Advanced ; Conservative RP refers to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds ; General RP is often considered neutral regarding age, occupation, or lifestyle of the speaker ; and Advanced RP refers to speech of a younger generation of speakers.

The modern style of RP is an accent often taught to non-native speakers learning British English.

RP is often used as the standard for English in most books on general phonology and phonetics and is represented in the pronunciation schemes of most dictionaries published in the United Kingdom.

* Barange M, Field JG, Harris RP, Eileen E, Hofmann EE, Perry RI and Werner F ( 2010 ) Marine Ecosystems and Global Change Oxford University Press.

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.

Daniel Jones transcribed RP pronunciations of all common words in his English Pronouncing Dictionary.

Republic County ( standard abbreviation: RP ) is a county located in the state of Kansas.

General American, like British Received Pronunciation ( RP ) and most standard language varieties of many other societies, has never been the accent of the entire nation.

This classifying map can be used to define the Stiefel-Whitney class of L, in the first cohomology of X with Z / 2Z coefficients, from a standard class on RP < sup >∞</ sup >.

An updated version of SMPTE color bars, developed by the Japanese Association of Radio Industry and Businesses as ARIB STD-B28 and standardized as SMPTE RP 219-2002, is used to test both 4 × 3 standard definition and 16 × 9 high-definition video signals.

The main characteristics of the accent are set out below, usually with reference to the standard English accent known as Received Pronunciation or BBC Pronunciation ( henceforth abbreviated as RP / BBC ).

Reader Protocol ( RP ) is an interface standard specifying the interactions between a device capable of reading / writing tags and application software.

He was a pupil and colleague of Daniel Jones, and is known for having updated and extended Jones ’ s description of standard British English pronunciation ( Received Pronunciation, or RP ).

In many Germanic languages, such as RP English, standard German, and Dutch, tense vowels are longer in duration than lax vowels ; but in other languages, such as Scots, Scottish English, and Icelandic, there is no such correlation.

The first standard, RP 5. 1 Instrument Flow Plan Symbols, followed in 1949, and the first journal, which eventually became today ’ s InTech magazine, was published in 1954.

Since then, the Cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English Language rather than an ' inferior ' one ; in the 1950s the only accent to be heard on the BBC ( except in entertainment programmes such as Sooty ) was RP, whereas nowadays many different accents, including Cockney or ones heavily influenced by it, can be heard on the BBC.

He may be inspired by Sir David Attenborough and speaks with a nasally RP English accent.

As with all English regional accents, the Brummie accent also grades into RP English.

The accent of presenter Cat Deeley is listed by her voiceover agency, Curtis Brown, as " RP / Birmingham ".

# The accent is generally non-rhotic, as is RP / BBC, so / r / is only pronounced when a vowel follows it.

* In the speech of older Norwich residents and in rural areas, a distinction exists which is absent in RP / BBC: where the latter has the FACE vowel, the former accent has in words spelt with ' ai ' or ' ay ' such as ' rain ' and ' day ', but ( similar to ' air ') in words spelt ' aCe ' such as ' take ', ' late '.

In another exchange, a man with a clipped British RP accent tells Valentine that he has wrongfully accused a hired servant of stealing some personal property and asks if there some way he can contact him to apologize.

Affluent districts are associated with a slightly RP accent, reflecting their traditional popularity with middle-class and upper-class residents as desirable semi-rural areas within commuting distance of London.

Estuary English is the name given to an accent ( or group of accents ) that may informally be considered a compromise between Cockney and RP.

* The RP vowels, and might be realized as in Indian English.

* The voiceless plosives are always unaspirated in Indian English, whereas in RP, General American and most other English accents they are aspirated in word-initial or stressed syllables.

The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI ( 27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934 ) was a leading English artist, and an author.

Even in the age of modern communications and mass media, according to one study, "… although the Received Pronunciation of Standard English has been heard constantly on radio and then television for over 60 years, only 3 to 5 % of the population of Britain actually speaks RP … new brands of English have been springing up even in recent times ...." What the vernacular would be in this case is a moot point: "… the standardisation of English has been in progress for many centuries.

It is most easily reached by a gravel road ( RP 41 ), which leaves Ruta 40 3 km north of Bajo Caracoles and runs 46 km northeast to the south side of the Pinturas Canyon.