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  2. Received Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Received Pronunciation (RP) is the British English accent regarded as the standard one, carrying the highest social prestige, since as late as the very early 20th century. [1] [2] It has also been referred to as Queen's English or King's English.

  3. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    Accents and dialects vary widely across Great Britain, Ireland and nearby smaller islands. The UK has the most local accents of any English-speaking country [citation needed]. As such, a single "British accent" does not exist. Someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish accent, although these all have many different ...

  4. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Indian English: Standard Indian English. Indian English: the "standard" English used by government administration, it derives from the British Indian Empire. Butler English: (also Bearer English or Kitchen English), once an occupational dialect, now a social dialect. Hinglish: a growing macaronic hybrid use of English and Indian languages.

  5. British English - Wikipedia

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    British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English ...

  6. English language in Southern England - Wikipedia

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    Modern Essex English is usually associated with non-rhotic Estuary English, [15] [16] mainly in urban areas receiving an influx of East London migrants since World War II. The Essex accent has an east–west variation with the county's west having Estuary English speech features and the county's east having the traditional Essaxon and East ...

  7. Why Gillian Anderson Has an American and British Accent - AOL

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    You may not have known, but Gillian Anderson is bidialectal.The 52-year-old The Crown actress was born in Chicago and moved to London when she was 5. When she was 11, she moved back to the United ...