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Received Pronunciation (RP) is the prestigious and non-regional variety of British English often considered to be Standard British English.

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At 19:24 in this episode of "The Rest is Entertainment", Marina Hyde uses a word that is hard to catch. Sounds like "inculcate" but not really. What word is it? Marked with --???-- ...
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According to the OED, both GLASS-ee-uh and GLAY-see-uh are correct pronunciations of the word glacier in British English (c.f. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/glacier_n?tl=true&tab=pronunciation) ...
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I would like to know how native speakers pronounce the dots or points between numbers, such in book chapter subdivisions, contract clauses, and so on... 8 - Eight 8.1 - Eight point/dot one 8.2 - Eight ...
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Anecdote. A friend of mine works at the Chemistry department of a university in the Netherlands. My friend went to a scientific conference in continental Europe. The participants from continental ...
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In the British accent (Modern RP), the word "often" is pronounced as "ɒf.tən" with the "t" sound. What about words like "soften", "fasten", and "...
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The English Wikipedia article on Received Pronunciation uses two particular vowel charts adapted from two sources, an article by Peter Roach titled British English: Received Pronunciation published in ...
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John Wells’ lexical sets are usually useful classifications for determining differences in the realizations of vowels across English accents. Two of the sets are the NURSE set, referring to a stressed ...
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https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/prompt_1?q=prompt Is the British pronunciation artificial, or is it really how people in England speak on a daily basis? The three ...
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If /ʌ/ occurs only in stressed syllables, why does punctilious /pʌŋkˈtɪliəs/ have it in an unstressed syllable? Same with upbraid /ʌpˈbreɪd/.
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I was wondering why we pronounce the word of as ä in the phrase "piece of cake" and as ov in the phrase "part of life". What I've tried: After searching on the internet, I've ...
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I was reading a book¹ recently where the main protagonist is fixated on homonyms and has rules that proper nouns are not homonyms and gives Harold and herald as an example of words that sound the same ...
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I have noticed that the vowel /ɜː/ (as in the RP pronunciation of "BIRD") sounds the same as the schwa [ə] (as in the pronunciation of "BUTTER" in RP). I assume the BIRD vowel is ...
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How well do common variants of Received Pronunciation distinguish between "autistic" versus "artistic"? Wiktionary gives the distinction that the former uses for the leading ...
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I’ve just learned the expression received pronunciation: the official standard queen style or accent! I'm not native speaker, but why use the word received here instead of standard or officially ...
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In my study of the pronunciation of English (RP), the sources that I happened to use, means of information of a moment and forgotten or permanent ones such as the Longman Pronunciation dictionary (JC ...
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