Received Pronunciation (English Wikipedia)

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"Labour MP Angela Rayner : 'I'm proud of my accent'". BBC News. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2021. Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg struggled with his "posh RP [received pronunciation] accent" when he was trying to get elected in Fife.
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"Has Beckham started talking posh?". BBC News.

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Robinson, Jonnie. "Received Pronunciation". British Library. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
"Regional Voices – Received Pronunciation". British Library. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
British Library. "Sounds Familiar". Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
"Case Studies – Received Pronunciation". British Library. 13 March 2007. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019. As well as being a living accent, RP is also a theoretical linguistic concept. It is the accent on which phonemic transcriptions in dictionaries are based, and it is widely used (in competition with General American) for teaching English as a foreign language.

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Cruttenden (2014), pp. 74–81. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), pp. 80–2. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Gladstone's speech was the subject of a book The Best English. A claim for the superiority of Received Standard English^{[permanent dead link‍]}, together with notes on Mr. Gladstone's pronunciation, H.C. Kennedy, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1934.
Cruttenden (2014), p. 78. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), pp. 325–52. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), p. 118. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), p. 133. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), p. 101. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014). Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), p. 154. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), pp. 83–5. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), p. 122. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Cruttenden (2014), pp. 126, 133. Cruttenden, Alan (2014), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (8th ed.), Routledge, ISBN 9781444183092
Collins & Mees (2013), p. 207. Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (2013) [First published 2003], Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students (3rd ed.), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-50650-2
Walker, John (1824). A critical pronouncing dictionary. p. 25.
Nolan, Dave; Nolan, David (24 November 2011). Emma Watson: The Biography. Kings Road Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84358-871-9. Emma speaks her lines with crystal-clear received pronunciation...

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Roach (2004), pp. 240–1. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 241. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 240. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), pp. 241, 243. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 242. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004). Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)

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Schmitt (2007), p. 323. Schmitt, Holger (2007), "The case for the epsilon symbol (ɛ) in RP DRESS", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 37 (3): 321–328, doi:10.1017/S0025100307003131, S2CID 143444452
Hudson (1981), p. 337. Hudson, Richard (1981), "Some Issues on Which Linguists Can Agree", Journal of Linguistics, 17 (2): 333–343, doi:10.1017/S0022226700007052, S2CID 144125788
Fishman (1977), p. 319. Fishman, Joshua (1977), ""Standard" versus "Dialect" in Bilingual Education: An Old Problem in a New Context", The Modern Language Journal, 61 (7): 315–325, doi:10.2307/324550, JSTOR 324550
Schwyter, Jürg R. (2016). "Schwyter, J.R. 'Dictating to the Mob: The History of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English', 2016, Oxford University Press". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198736738.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-873673-8.
Roach (2004), pp. 240–1. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 241. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 240. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Stahlke, Herbert F. W. (1 January 2003). "Fortis and lenis obstruents in English". WORD. 54 (2): 191–216. doi:10.1080/00437956.2003.12068832. S2CID 141381109.
Roach (2004), pp. 241, 243. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Gupta (2005), p. 25. Gupta, Anthea Fraser (2005), "Baths and becks" (PDF), English Today, 21 (1): 21–27, doi:10.1017/S0266078405001069, ISSN 0266-0784, S2CID 54620954
Wikström (2013), p. 45. "It seems to be the case that younger RP or near-RP speakers typically use a closer quality, possibly approaching Cardinal 6 considering that the quality appears to be roughly intermediate between that used by older speakers for the LOT vowel and that used for the THOUGHT vowel, while older speakers use a more open quality, between Cardinal Vowels 13 and 6." Wikström, Jussi (2013), "An acoustic study of the RP English LOT and THOUGHT vowels", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 37–47, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000345, S2CID 146863401
Roach (2004), p. 242. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004). Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Levon, Erez; Sharma, Devyani; Watt, Dominic J. L.; Cardoso, Amanda; Ye, Yang (2021). "Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England". Journal of English Linguistics. 49 (4): 355–388. doi:10.1177/00754242211046316.

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Enfield, Harry (30 July 2007). "Mr Cholmondley-Warner on Life in 1990". YouTube. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
Woods, Vicki (5 August 2011). "When I didn't know owt about posh speak". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.
Stadlen, Matthew (10 July 2015). "Joanna Lumley: I'm not posh - and I eat like a horse". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
Cooper, Glenda (4 October 2014). "A 'posh' RP voice can break down barriers". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.

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Brandreth, Gyles (23 December 2018). "Am I posh? Is David Dimbleby? Are you?". GYLES BRANDRETH. Retrieved 3 July 2023. ... I have a 'posh' accent. In fact, I sound much less fruity and plummy than I used to do. (So does The Queen, incidentally.) I sound very like my father, and English middle class professional people of his generation (he was born in 1910) sounded like he sounded and I sound now.

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Cho, Juhyung (1 January 2022). "Vowel changes in the speech of Sir David Attenborough". SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics. 18. hdl:10371/176946. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

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Fishman (1977), p. 319. Fishman, Joshua (1977), ""Standard" versus "Dialect" in Bilingual Education: An Old Problem in a New Context", The Modern Language Journal, 61 (7): 315–325, doi:10.2307/324550, JSTOR 324550
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Levon, Erez; Sharma, Devyani; Watt, Dominic J. L.; Cardoso, Amanda; Ye, Yang (2021). "Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England". Journal of English Linguistics. 49 (4): 355–388. doi:10.1177/00754242211046316.

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Schmitt (2007), p. 323. Schmitt, Holger (2007), "The case for the epsilon symbol (ɛ) in RP DRESS", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 37 (3): 321–328, doi:10.1017/S0025100307003131, S2CID 143444452
Hudson (1981), p. 337. Hudson, Richard (1981), "Some Issues on Which Linguists Can Agree", Journal of Linguistics, 17 (2): 333–343, doi:10.1017/S0022226700007052, S2CID 144125788
Roach (2004), pp. 240–1. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 241. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004), p. 240. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Stahlke, Herbert F. W. (1 January 2003). "Fortis and lenis obstruents in English". WORD. 54 (2): 191–216. doi:10.1080/00437956.2003.12068832. S2CID 141381109.
Roach (2004), pp. 241, 243. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Gupta (2005), p. 25. Gupta, Anthea Fraser (2005), "Baths and becks" (PDF), English Today, 21 (1): 21–27, doi:10.1017/S0266078405001069, ISSN 0266-0784, S2CID 54620954
Wikström (2013), p. 45. "It seems to be the case that younger RP or near-RP speakers typically use a closer quality, possibly approaching Cardinal 6 considering that the quality appears to be roughly intermediate between that used by older speakers for the LOT vowel and that used for the THOUGHT vowel, while older speakers use a more open quality, between Cardinal Vowels 13 and 6." Wikström, Jussi (2013), "An acoustic study of the RP English LOT and THOUGHT vowels", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 37–47, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000345, S2CID 146863401
Roach (2004), p. 242. Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
Roach (2004). Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 (inactive 25 November 2024), S2CID 144338519{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)

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Woods, Vicki (5 August 2011). "When I didn't know owt about posh speak". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.
Stadlen, Matthew (10 July 2015). "Joanna Lumley: I'm not posh - and I eat like a horse". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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Kortmann, Bernd (2004). Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology; Morphology, Syntax. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 217–230. ISBN 978-3110175325. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

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"Bias against working-class and regional accents has not gone away, report finds". The Guardian. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.

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Lawson, Lindsey (14 October 2013). "A popular British accent with very few native speakers". The Voice Cafe. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
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"7 Best English Podcasts (Free and Paid)". TruFluency. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2023. Gyles Brandreth and Susie Dent are the hosts of Something Rhymes with Purple, ... the speech of the hosts tends to show features of the Received Pronunciation (RP) English accent, ...

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Robinson, Jonnie. "Received Pronunciation". British Library. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
"Regional Voices – Received Pronunciation". British Library. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
British Library. "Sounds Familiar". Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
"Case Studies – Received Pronunciation". British Library. 13 March 2007. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019. As well as being a living accent, RP is also a theoretical linguistic concept. It is the accent on which phonemic transcriptions in dictionaries are based, and it is widely used (in competition with General American) for teaching English as a foreign language.
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Gupta (2005), p. 25. Gupta, Anthea Fraser (2005), "Baths and becks" (PDF), English Today, 21 (1): 21–27, doi:10.1017/S0266078405001069, ISSN 0266-0784, S2CID 54620954
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