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The tradition of Received Pronunciation is usually credited to the British phonetician Daniel Jones.In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917), he named the accent "Public School Pronunciation"; for the second edition in 1926 he wrote: "In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation, for want of a better term."
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 ...
These accents rapidly declined after World War II, presumably as a result of cultural and demographic changes in the U.S. [7] This American version of a "posh" accent has disappeared even among the American upper classes, as Americans have increasingly dissociated from all speaking styles of the East Coast since the mid-20th century. [15]
Victoria Beckham (born 1974), singer nicknamed "Posh Spice" while she was a member of the Spice Girls; Peterborough United F.C., an English football club, nicknamed "The Posh" Received Pronunciation, sometimes known as a "posh accent" Posh (Haganah unit), the commando arm of the Haganah during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
What is Gillian Anderson’s accent in real life? The answer is … it depends. Fans of Netflix’s “The Crown” will recall Anderson’s marvelously posh British accent when she played Prime ...
COMMENT: Prue Leith from ‘Bake Off’ says she ‘hates’ her posh accent. But speaking RP is rarely a hindrance, argues Katie Rosseinsky
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 ...
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.