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1041: 1451: 1052: 1064: 4108:ðəˈnɔːθˈw̥ɪndən̪n̪əˈsʌnwədɪˈspj̊u̟ːtɪŋˈwɪʔtʃwəzðəˈstɹ̥ɒŋɡə,wenəˈtɹ̥ævl̩əˌkʰeɪməˌlɒŋˈɹæptʰɪnəˈwɔːmˈkl̥əʊkˣ.ðeɪəˈɡɹ̥iːd̥ð̥əʔðəˈwʌnɦuˈfɜːssəkˈsiːdɪdɪmˈmeɪxɪŋðəˈtɹ̥ævləˌtʰeɪk̟x̟ɪsˈkl̥əʊkɒfʃʊbbikʰənˌsɪdəd̥ˈstɹɒŋɡəð̥ən̪n̪iˈʌðə.ˈðen̪n̪əˌnɔːθw̥ɪndˈbluːəz̥ˈhɑːd̥əsiˈkʊd,bət̬ð̥əˈmɔːhiˈblu̟ːðəˌmɔˈkl̥əʊsl̥id̥ɨdð̥əˈtɹ̥æv̥ləˈfəʊld̥hɪz̥ˌkl̥əʊkʰəˈɹaʊndhɪm,ændətˈl̥ɑːstð̥əˈnɔːθw̥ɪndˌɡ̊eɪv̥ˈʌpði̥əˈtʰemʔt.ˈðen̪n̪əˈsʌnˌʃɒnaʊtˈwɔːmli,ændəˈmiːdiətl̥ið̥əˈtɹ̥ævləˈtʰʊkɒfɪz̥ˈkl̥əʊkˣ.n̩ˌsəʊðəˈnɔːθˈw̥ɪnwəz̥əˈblaɪdʒ̊tʰɵkʰənˈfesð̥əʔð̥əˈsʌnwəz̥z̥əˈstɹ̥ɒŋɡɹ̩əv̥ð̥əˈtʰu̟ː. 1894: 1436: 1414: 1851: 1828: 1029: 1805: 1782: 1479: 1392: 4027: 1748: 291:"; he suggests that Gimson's categories of Conservative and Advanced RP referred to the U-RP of the old and young respectively. However, Wells stated, "It is difficult to separate stereotype from reality" with U-RP. Writing on his blog in February 2013, Wells wrote, "If only a very small percentage of English people speak RP, as Trudgill et al. claim, then the percentage speaking U-RP is vanishingly small" and "If I were redoing it today, I think I'd drop all mention of 'U-RP'". 337:
some as being associated with undeserved, or accidental, privilege and as a symbol of the southeast's political power in Britain. Based on a 1997 survey, Jane Stuart-Smith wrote, "RP has little status in Glasgow, and is regarded with hostility in some quarters". A 2007 survey found that residents of Scotland and Northern Ireland tend to dislike RP. It is shunned by some with left-wing political views, who may be proud of having accents more typical of the working classes.
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often have no audible release utterance-finally, and voiced consonants are partly or completely devoiced (as in ); thus the perceptual distinction between pairs of words such as 'bad' and 'bat', or 'seed' and 'seat' rests mostly on vowel length (though the presence or absence of glottal reinforcement
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Since the Second World War, and increasingly since the 1960s, a wider acceptance of regional English varieties has taken hold in education and public life. Nonetheless, surveys from 1969 to 2022 consistently show that RP is perceived as the most prestigious accent of English in the United Kingdom. In
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as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the South of England", and alternative names such as "Standard Southern British" have been used. Despite RP's historic high social prestige in Britain, being seen as the accent of those with power, money, and influence, it may be perceived negatively by
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Traditionally, Received Pronunciation has been associated with high social class. It was the "everyday speech in the families of Southern English persons whose men-folk been educated at the great public boarding-schools" and which conveyed no information about that speaker's region of origin before
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A change in the symbolisation of the GOAT diphthong reflects a change in the pronunciation of the starting point: older accounts of this diphthong describe it as starting with , moving towards . This was often symbolized as /ou/ or /oʊ/. In modern RP the starting point is unrounded and central, and
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during the Second World War; his accent allowing listeners to more clearly distinguish BBC broadcasts from German propaganda, though Pickles had modified his accent to be closer to RP. Since the Second World War RP has played a much smaller role in broadcast speech. RP remains the accent most often
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but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak. And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.
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The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could,
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used both terms interchangeably, but with a much broader definition than Jones's, saying, "There is no such thing as a uniform educated pron. of English, and rp. and rs. is a variable quantity differing from individual to individual, although all its varieties are 'received', understood and mainly
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proposed Conservative, General, and Advanced; "Conservative RP" referred to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds; General RP was considered neutral regarding age, occupation or lifestyle of the speaker; and Advanced RP referred to speech of a younger
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Many conventional descriptions of the RP vowel system group the non-diphthongal vowels into the categories "long" and "short". This should not be taken to mean that RP has minimal pairs in which the only difference is vowel length. "Long" and "short" are convenient cover terms for a number of
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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'). It is an accent of the south east of England which operates as a prestige norm there and (to varying
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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
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frequently criticised the name "Received Pronunciation" in his blog: he has called it "invidious", a "ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term" and noted that American scholars find the term "quite curious". He used the term "General British" (to parallel
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refers to this accent as "gentry". "What the Producer and I tried to do was to have each poem spoken in the dialect that was, so far as we could tell, ringing in Kipling's ears when he wrote it. Sometimes the dialect is most appropriately, Gentry. More often, it isn't."
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attending the school. An 1891 teacher's handbook stated, "It is the business of educated people to speak so that no-one may be able to tell in what county their childhood was passed". Nevertheless, in the 19th century some British prime ministers, such as
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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
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words. She wrote, "There is no justification for the claims by Wells and Mugglestone that this is a sociolinguistic variable in the north, though it is a sociolinguistic variable on the areas on the border ". In a study of speech in West Yorkshire,
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was traditionally used before a sounded /h/ if immediately followed by an unstressed vowel, as in 'an hyaena.' This is now uncommon, especially in speech, and may be confined only to some of the more frequently used words, such as 'horrific' and
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Unstressed vowels are both shorter and more centralised than stressed ones. In unstressed syllables occurring before vowels and in final position, contrasts between long and short high vowels are neutralised and short and occur (e.g.
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generation of speakers. Later editions (e.g., Gimson 2008) use the terms General, Refined and Regional RP. In the latest revision of Gimson's book, the terms preferred are General British (GB), Conspicuous GB and Regional GB.
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presenters no longer suggest high social class and privilege to their listeners. Other writers have also used the name "BBC Pronunciation". The term 'The Queen's English' has also been used by some writers.
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regularly publishes "Illustrations of the IPA" which present an outline of the phonetics of a particular language or accent. It is usual to base the description on a recording of the traditional story of
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would have had the vowel /ɪ/ whereas a more modern pronunciation has a vowel nearer to /iː/. In pronunciation handbooks and dictionaries it is now common to use the symbol /i/ to cover both possibilities.
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Vowels may be phonologically long or short (i.e. belong to the long or the short group of vowel phonemes) but their length is influenced by their context: in particular, they are shortened if a voiceless
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by the end of the 15th century, it did not begin to resemble RP until the late 19th century. RP has most in common with the dialects of what has been termed the South East Midlands, in particular the
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A few illustrative examples of changes in RP during the 20th century and early 21st are given below. A more comprehensive list (using the name "General British" in place of "RP") is given in
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Like all accents, RP has changed with time. For example, sound recordings and films from the first half of the 20th century demonstrate that it was usual for speakers of RP to pronounce the
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distinguishes between RP (which he equates with Wells's "mainstream RP"), Traditional RP (after Ramsaran 1990), and an even older version which he identifies with Cruttenden's "Refined RP".
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for many contemporary speakers. The effect of these two mergers (horse-hoarse and moor-more) is to bring about a number of three-way mergers of items which were hitherto distinct, such as
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in this case begins with a more back, rounded and sometimes more open vowel quality; it may be transcribed as or . It is likely that the backness of the diphthong onset is the result of
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Pronunciation"; for the second edition in 1926 he wrote: "In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation, for want of a better term." However, the term had been used much earlier by
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has argued that the system of transcription for RP has become outdated and has proposed a new system (which he calls Standard Southern British English, or SSB) as a replacement.
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is necessary for learners to aim at, and to act as a basis for description in textbooks and classroom materials. RP has been the traditional choice for teachers and learners of
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usage is too low to correlate meaningfully with the usual factors", having found only two speakers (both having attended boarding schools in the south) who consistently used
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de Jong, Gea; McDougall, Kirsty; Hudson, Toby; Nolan, Francis (2007), "The speaker discriminating power of sounds undergoing historical change: A formant-based study",
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was frequently pronounced . The same sound, however, is sometimes pronounced as an allophone of /t/ when it occurs intervocalically after a stressed syllable – the
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heard in the speech of announcers and newsreaders on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, and in some TV channels, but non-RP accents are now more widely encountered.
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lists them with a § marker of non-RP status. John Wells wrote in a blog entry on 16 March 2012 that when growing up in the north of England he used
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John Wells has argued that, as educated British speakers often attempt to pronounce French names in a French way, there is a case for including
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is aspirated in "impasse", with primary stress on "-passe", but not "compass", where "-pass" has no stress.) Aspiration does not occur when
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The claim that RP is non-regional is disputed, since it is most commonly found in London and the southeast of England. It is defined in the
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A number of cases can be identified where changes in the pronunciation of individual words, or small groups of words, have taken place.
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that is familiar in American English. Phonetically, this sounds more like /d/, and this pronunciation is sometimes known as /t/-voicing.
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Lindsey's system is as follows—differences between it and standard transcription are depicted with the usual transcription in brackets.
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In the early days of British broadcasting speakers of English origin almost universally used RP. The first director-general of the
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has largely disappeared from RP, though it can be heard in films and broadcasts from the first half of the 20th century. The word
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Faced with the difficulty of defining a single standard of RP, some researchers have tried to distinguish between sub-varieties:
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Jack Windsor Lewis has noted that the Oxford Dictionary's position has changed several times on whether to include short
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Klaus J. Kohler (2017) "Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction", published by CUP (page 268)
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Sangster, Catherine, 'The BBC, its Pronunciation Unit and 'BBC English' in Roach, P., Setter, J. and Esling, J. (eds)
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for short vowels before voiced consonants but a mean value of 165 ms for long vowels preceding voiceless consonants.
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Some linguists have used the term "RP" while expressing reservations about its suitability. The Cambridge-published
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Newbrook, Mark (1999), "West Wirral: norms, self-reports and usage", in Foulkes, Paul; Docherty, Gerald J. (eds.),
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2022, 25% of British adults reported being mocked for their regional accent at work, and 46% in social situations.
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is realized as a back rounded vowel, which again is likely to cause backing and rounding in a preceding vowel as
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Fishman, Joshua (1977), ""Standard" versus "Dialect" in Bilingual Education: An Old Problem in a New Context",
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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet
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For speakers of Received Pronunciation in the late 19th century, it was common for the consonant combination
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Robinson, Jonnie (24 April 2019). "Received Pronunciation". The British Library. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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is not present except among those who have acquired this distinction as the result of speech training). The
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Stuart-Smith, Jane (1999). "Glasgow: accent and voice quality". In Foulkes, Paul; Docherty, Gerard (eds.).
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and in subsequent publications. The name "General British" is adopted in the latest revision of Gimson's
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Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg struggled with his "posh RP accent" when he was trying to get elected in Fife.
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in these words must be considered within RP and has called the opposing view "south-centric". Upton's
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in "bath" and "glass", and considers this the only acceptable phoneme in RP. Others have argued that
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Upton, Clive (21 January 2019). "Chapter 14: British English". In Reed, Marnie; Levis, John (eds.).
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shifted her pronunciation over the course of her reign, ceasing to use an -like vowel in words like
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of universities, namely London, Oxford and Cambridge, and the public schools that fed them, such as
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selected RP as its broadcasting standard, citing its being widely understood globally as a reason.
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phonetic features. The long-short pairings shown above include also differences in vowel quality.
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is increasingly pronounced as a monophthong , although without merging with any existing vowels.
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phoneme has ceased to be a feature of RP, except in an exaggeratedly precise style of speaking (
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at the beginning of a syllable, unless a completely unstressed vowel follows. (For example, the
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Examples of speakers of the more "conservative" type of RP are Stephen Fry and Dame Judi Dench.
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in 1818 and the Oxford English Dictionary cites quotations back to about 1710. A similar term,
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Pronunciation", on the basis that the name "Received Pronunciation" is "archaic" and that
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Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A commemorative volume in honour of A. C. Gimson
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than phonologically long vowels in another context. For example, the vowel called "long"
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Wikström, Jussi (2013), "An acoustic study of the RP English LOT and THOUGHT vowels",
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gives an account of the /ɔə/ diphthong, but notes "many speakers of Received English (
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is pronounced by some RP speakers in a noticeably different way when it occurs before
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is too categorical in the north of England to be excluded. Clive Upton believes that
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Like most other varieties of English outside Northern England, RP has undergone the
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vowel as "the main instance of conscious rejection of RP" in his research in West
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In a number of words where contemporary RP has an unstressed syllable with schwa
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is increasingly used in modern RP to avoid the clash with the lowered variety of
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is nonetheless traditionally used for RP in most of the literature on the topic.
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the symbols and concepts still remain highly relevant, commonly taught and used.
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https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_1-9/pdf/teacher-notes.pdf
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1967: John REITH explains the "BBC ACCENT" | Lord Reith Looks Back | BBC Archive
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Pronunciation forms an essential component of language learning and teaching; a
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Halle, Morris; Mohanan, K. P. (1985), "Segmental Phonology of Modern English",
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Unlike a number of North American accents of English, RP has not undergone the
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There has been a change in the pronunciation of the unstressed final vowel of
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words. A. F. Gupta wrote, "Many of the northerners were noticeably hostile to
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with all three units realised as or . This type of smoothing is known as the
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Gyles Brandreth and Susie Dent are the hosts of Something Rhymes with Purple,
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The female speaker is described as having been born in 1953 and educated at
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diphthong in "fold" is slightly more back and rounded than that in "cloak".
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The Best English. A claim for the superiority of Received Standard English
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is still found in conservative speakers, and in less common words such as
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The centring diphthongs are gradually being eliminated in RP. The vowel
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Jones, Daniel (2011), Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.),
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words. A. F. Gupta's survey of mostly middle-class students found that
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does not occur unless followed immediately by a vowel. Pairs such as
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estimated 3% in 1974, but that rough estimate has been questioned by
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Hudson, Richard (1981), "Some Issues on Which Linguists Can Agree",
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Emma speaks her lines with crystal-clear received pronunciation...
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variation caused by the raising of the back of the tongue for the
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A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English
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Not all reference sources use the same system of transcription.
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effects. This phenomenon has been discussed in several blogs by
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A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of American and British English
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Talking for Britain: A journey through the voices of our nation
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Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students
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Recitation: a Handbook for Teachers in Public Elementary School
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Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology; Morphology, Syntax
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Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William A.; Konopka, Rafal (2001),
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was used by almost everyone who was from clearly north of the
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diphthong in the two different contexts. The onset of the pre-
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is elsewhere transcribed with the traditional symbols ⟨
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precedes in the same syllable, as in "spot" or "stop". When a
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Most English dictionaries published in Britain (including the
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/yourvoice/accents_comments.shtml
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The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English
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Unlike many North American accents, RP has not undergone the
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for older (black) and younger (light blue) RP speakers. From
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The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English
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Opinions differ over the proportion of Britons who speak RP.
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dictionaries; the differences are shown in the table below.
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BBC page on Upper RP as spoken by the English upper-classes
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Schmitt, Holger (2007), "The case for the epsilon symbol (
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00754242211046316
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originally had a yod in RP but this is now extremely rare.
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Monophthongs of a fairly conservative variety of RP. From
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The Pickles Experiment – a Yorkshire man reading the news
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The following people have been described as RP speakers:
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The audio recording on which the transcriptions are based
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uses the name "Standard Southern British". Page 4 reads:
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degrees) in other parts of the British Isles and beyond.
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Glottal reinforcement of /p, t, k, tʃ/ syllable-finally
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refers to Conservative, Mainstream and Contemporary RP.
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Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English
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McDavid, Raven I. (1965), "American Social Dialects",
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English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today
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https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/parsons_ma.pdf
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SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics
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English after RP: standard British pronunciation today
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mergers: all these words are distinct from each other.
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would sound similar to a present-day pronunciation of
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Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English
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Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English
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The Phonology of English as an International Language
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Monophthongs of a modern variety of RP. Adapted from
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Aspiration of voiceless consonants syllable-initially
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The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies
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diphthong has become lowered from mid to open-mid .
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Some research has concluded that many people in the
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As in other varieties of English, voiced plosives (
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The realization of 919:; thus, an alternative phonetic transcription of 860:follows, this aspiration is indicated by partial 10437: 7997:Ramsaran, Susan (1990), "RP: fact and fiction", 7447:"In British politics, posh pronunciation reigns" 7053:"In British politics, posh pronunciation reigns" 5715: 5434:. British Library. 13 March 2007. Archived from 5405: 5034: 3916:dialect of South Africa) is not used very often. 1960:as well among most speakers, although the sound 956:Shortening of vowels before voiceless consonants 57:IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters 8173:Upton, Clive (2004), "Received Pronunciation", 7990:Dialect and Accent in Industrial West Yorkshire 7694:An Introduction to the pronunciation of English 6992: 6547:Simpson, J. A., & Weiner, E. S. C. (1989). 6308:(9th ed.). Heffer. p. 101, para 394. 1666:(which ends with a voiceless consonant) may be 403:(using the name "Received Pronunciation"), and 123:is usually credited to the British phonetician 8194:(1970), "Local accents in England and Wales", 7464:Nolan, Dave; Nolan, David (24 November 2011). 6752: 6750: 6748: 6720:... from old-fashioned traditional RP speakers 6334:"Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?" 5987: 4909:, John Wells's phonetic blog, 28 February 2013 4804: 4727: 4701: 2266:can be considered RP. The pronunciations with 1071::92, 95, 101). The red ones occur before dark 9654: 8514: 8090:British Accents: Cockney, RP, Estuary English 5020:Gladstone's speech was the subject of a book 4779: 4335:, former Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012) 4307:, former Prime Minister of the UK (1979–1990) 4265:, former Prime Minister of the UK (2016–2019) 4247:, former Prime Minister of the UK (2019–2022) 4193:, former Prime Minister of the UK (2010–2016) 3163:, have shifted upwards, and are now close to 1742: 1055:Ranges of the weak vowels in RP and GA. From 308: 8872: 8373:Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation? 8047:(4th ed.), Cambridge University Press, 7752: 7582:(2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, 6120: 5912:"Review of Longman Pronunciation Dictionary" 5637: 5369:Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary 5329:Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary 5192: 4442: 2448: 2426: 2420: 2414: 2408: 2402: 2388: 8078: 7951: 7862:(18th ed.), Cambridge University Press 7801:International Phonetic Association (1999), 7516: 7499:Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger M. (2003) , 7498: 7371:"A 'posh' RP voice can break down barriers" 6745: 6696: 6480: 6455: 6404: 6255: 5795: 5685: 5673: 5406:Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William (2017). 5341: 4952: 4845: 4568: 4566: 4564: 4562: 4187:, broadcaster, writer and former politician 2817:and its "Mr. Cholmondley-Warner" sketches. 2342:BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names 2255:There are differing opinions as to whether 1068: 318:, still spoke with some regional features. 9661: 9647: 9548:Comparison of American and British English 8521: 8507: 8309:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 8111:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 8087: 7554: 7536: 7503:(5th ed.), Leiden: Brill Publishers, 7463: 6968: 6966: 6964: 6684: 6564: 6392: 6267: 6185: 5807: 5745: 5733: 5697: 5661: 5485: 5259: 5006:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 4833: 4629: 4605:"Regional Voices – Received Pronunciation" 4430: 3642:Comparison with other varieties of English 3023:Before the Second World War, the vowel of 2022:. If the speaker has "l-vocalization" the 1679: 1045: 8026: 8008:"British English: Received Pronunciation" 7875: 7604: 6946:"When I didn't know owt about posh speak" 6938: 6936: 6934: 6884: 6849:"7 Best English Podcasts (Free and Paid)" 6699:Practical English Phonetics and Phonology 6483:Practical English Phonetics and Phonology 6458:Practical English Phonetics and Phonology 6445:(3rd ed.). pp. 135–6, para 250. 6327: 6325: 5578: 5561:Stahlke, Herbert F. W. (1 January 2003). 5305:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198736738.001.0001 5127:International Phonetic Association (1999) 5063: 4858:International Phonetic Association (1999) 4677: 4479: 4447:. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2340:within its prescribed pronunciation. The 1067:Allophones of some RP monophthongs, from 9241: 8266: 8160: 8063:Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary 7996: 7978: 7960: 7914: 7860:Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary 7517:Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (2013) , 6887:"Am I posh? Is David Dimbleby? Are you?" 6541: 6368:"Morgen – a suitable case for treatment" 6353: 6291: 6040: 5563:"Fortis and lenis obstruents in English" 5294: 5235: 5180: 5114: 5040: 4918: 4689: 4559: 4197:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire 4151: 4139: 4126: 3889:, both pronunciations (with and without 3616: 2847: 2819: 2433:Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary 1746: 1075:, and the blue one occurs before velars. 1062: 1050: 1039: 1027: 8151: 8119: 7956:(2nd ed.), Oxford University Press 7923: 7884: 7818: 7660: 7595: 7574: 7174: 6961: 6701:(4th ed.). Routledge. p. 52. 6697:Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (2019). 6485:(4th ed.). Routledge. p. 69. 6481:Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (2019). 6460:(4th ed.). Routledge. p. 67. 6456:Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (2019). 6365: 6279: 6233: 6198:The Queen's speech to President Sarkozy 6141:"Mr Cholmondley-Warner on Life in 1990" 6138: 6082: 6009: 5613: 5560: 5432:"Case Studies – Received Pronunciation" 5394:Upton, Kretzschmar & Konopka (2001) 5247: 5150: 4991: 4925:. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 217–230. 4882: 4754:Jack Windsor Lewis (19 February 1972). 4641: 4553: 4541: 4443:Lindsey, Geoff; Wells, John C. (2019). 4376: 3225:has become more open, near to cardinal 2776: 2456: 1944:by the Second World War, and the vowel 915:). The glottal stop may be realised as 10438: 8317: 7969: 7772: 7700: 7688: 7367: 7001: 6972: 6931: 6505: 6322: 6209: 5548: 5138: 3577:There has been considerable growth in 2611:Lindsey's monophthongs and diphthongs 277: 9642: 8502: 8239: 8224:Accents of English I: An Introduction 8221: 8190: 8177:, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 217–230 8172: 8060: 8042: 8005: 7987: 7981:The Concise Oxford English Dictionary 7905: 7857: 7848: 7839: 7827: 7709: 7642: 7616: 7382:from the original on 11 January 2022. 6957:from the original on 11 January 2022. 6942: 6918: 6885:Brandreth, Gyles (23 December 2018). 6790: 6775: 6756: 6739: 6660: 6648: 6636: 6621: 6609: 6597: 6579:from the original on 17 February 2022 6428: 6380: 6331: 6303: 6221: 6101: 6070: 6055: 6028: 5974: 5962: 5947: 5928: 5897: 5885: 5757: 5709: 5649: 5625: 5601: 5533: 5518: 5497: 5460: 5381: 5094:. John Wiley & Son. p. 251. 5092:The Handbook of English Pronunciation 5089: 4979: 4894: 4665: 4653: 4529: 4467: 4389: 3410: 3288: 3264: 1752: 1056: 1033: 284: 9618:Non-native pronunciations of English 8328: 8294: 8257: 7908:A Critical Introduction to Phonetics 7869:the Proceedings of ICPhS Saarbrücken 7197:from the original on 11 January 2022 6672: 6440: 5721: 4572: 4517: 4400: 4398: 3581:in RP, most commonly in the form of 3016:vowel and the starting point of the 418: 201: 47:. For the distinction between , 7624:, New York, (1968): Greenwood Press 7394:"Has Beckham started talking posh?" 6973:Lawson, Lindsey (14 October 2013). 6809: 5041:Trudgill, Peter (8 December 2000). 4747: 4122: 2270:are invariably accepted as RP. The 16:Standard accent for British English 13: 8175:A Handbook of Varieties of English 7501:The Phonetics of English and Dutch 6085:"The British English vowel system" 4037:Specimen of Received Pronunciation 4025: 4018: 3975:accents, RP has not undergone the 3070:as a result of a process known as 2789:, with a vowel close to , so that 2465:devised a modified system for the 2453:for a total of four nasal vowels. 1730:near-close near-back rounded vowel 14: 10467: 8342: 8186:, Oxford: Oxford University Press 8079:Roca, Iggy; Johnson, Wyn (1999), 7917:The Oxford Guide to World English 7558:Gimson's Pronunciation of English 7539:Gimson's Pronunciation of English 7368:Cooper, Glenda (4 October 2014). 7175:Stadlen, Matthew (10 July 2015). 6509:A critical pronouncing dictionary 6010:Pointon, Graham (20 April 2010). 5863: 5841: 5819: 4607:. British Library. Archived from 4395: 2842:Gimson's Pronunciation of English 2468:Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1472: 1444: 1429: 1407: 1400: 1385: 1184: 1170: 1163: 1156: 1149: 1131: 1124: 747: 738: 729: 720: 696: 685: 678: 671: 664: 657: 650: 643: 636: 614: 607: 583: 576: 565: 558: 549: 542: 524: 511: 500: 334:Concise Oxford English Dictionary 300:An article on the website of the 8395:Jack Windsor Lewis's PhonetiBlog 8384:Sources of regular comment on RP 8375:– An article by the phonetician 8242:Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 8154:Sound Patterns of Spoken English 7541:(7th ed.), London: Hodder, 7457: 7439: 7404: 7386: 7361: 7335: 7317: 7288: 7279: 7244: 7209: 7168: 7150: 7115: 7080: 7063: 7045: 7010: 6912: 6878: 6841: 6803: 6784: 6769: 6690: 6565:Wordsworth, Dot (8 April 2017). 6558: 6527:(9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. 6516: 6499: 6474: 6449: 6434: 6359: 6297: 6227: 6191: 6132: 6114: 6095: 6076: 4873:. London: BBC; pp. 7, 12 &c. 4351:English language spelling reform 4061:Problems playing this file? See 4041: 2801:, but recordings show that even 2477: 2285:Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 1956:) has more recently merged with 397:Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 268: 8045:English Phonetics and Phonology 7851:An Outline of English Phonetics 7612:, vol. 1, pp. 259–264 7491: 6810:Cho, Juhyung (1 January 2022). 6791:Wells, John (8 November 2010). 6366:Lindsey, Geoff (15 July 2012). 6332:Wells, John (27 January 1994). 6306:An outline of English phonetics 6139:Enfield, Harry (30 July 2007). 6126:"Happy-tensing and coal in sex" 6083:Lindsey, Geoff (8 March 2012). 6003: 5980: 5922: 5903: 5857: 5835: 5813: 5763: 5679: 5667: 5554: 5454: 5424: 5399: 5360: 5347: 5334: 5321: 5288: 5265: 5211: 5186: 5144: 5083: 5057: 5043:"Sociolinguistics of Modern RP" 5014: 4985: 4946: 4912: 4900: 4863: 4798: 4773: 4756:"British non-dialectal accents" 4721: 4695: 4597: 3941:Unlike some other varieties of 3789:, but most speakers of RP have 3557:voiceless labio-velar fricative 3533: 3190:, traditionally transcribed as 3155:, traditionally transcribed as 2378: 801:International Phonetic Alphabet 378: 287:refers to "mainstream RP" and " 231:") in his 1970s publication of 149:in 1927. The early phonetician 39:International Phonetic Alphabet 9568:English-based creole languages 8336:(3rd ed.), London: Murray 7842:English Pronouncing Dictionary 7833:English Pronouncing Dictionary 7805:, Cambridge University Press, 7622:On early English pronunciation 6943:Woods, Vicki (5 August 2011). 6234:Lindsey, Geoff (3 June 2012). 5580:10.1080/00437956.2003.12068832 5465:. Singapore University Press. 4485: 4436: 4283:, broadcaster and TV presenter 2272:English Pronouncing Dictionary 1670:than the vowel called "short" 993:is often realised as (a long 389:English Pronouncing Dictionary 208:English Pronouncing Dictionary 130:English Pronouncing Dictionary 127:. In the first edition of the 75:traditionally regarded as the 1: 9608:List of English-based pidgins 8401:Linguism – Language in a word 8001:, Routledge, pp. 178–190 7710:Gupta, Anthea Fraser (2005), 7002:Wells, John (12 June 2008a). 6200:, "often" pronounced at 4:40. 6102:Wells, John (12 March 2012). 5929:Wells, John (16 March 2012). 5151:Crystal, David (March 2007). 4392:, p. xix, paragraph 2.1. 3979:, meaning that pairs such as 3936:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 3031:. It then shifted forward to 2241: 1983:has become a pure long vowel 1702:provides an additional cue). 981:The voiced dental fricative ( 439: 191:Fowler's Modern English Usage 133:(1917), he named the accent " 9603:Linguistic purism in English 8415:Blagdon Hall, Northumberland 8379:about received pronunciation 8295:Wise, Claude Merton (1957), 7979:Pearsall, Judy, ed. (1999), 7835:(1st ed.), London: Dent 7761:(1), The MIT Press: 57–116, 6919:Wells, John (8 April 2010). 6776:Wells, John (11 July 2007). 6016:Linguism: Language in a word 4780:Windsor Lewis, Jack (1972). 4301:, broadcaster and journalist 4241:, late author and journalist 4181:, broadcaster and naturalist 3600:The realization of /r/ as a 3074:: an older pronunciation of 2619:Long (triggering r-liaison) 2435:draws a distinction between 895:may be either preceded by a 434: 161:had been established in the 7: 10446:English language in England 9891:Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect 8704:London & Thames Estuary 7992:, John Benjamins Publishing 7952:Mugglestone, Lynda (2003), 7663:The Modern Language Journal 7561:(8th ed.), Routledge, 7523:(3rd ed.), Routledge, 6713:A tap was also to be heard 5910:Jack Windsor Lewis (1990). 5299:. Oxford University Press. 5045:. University College London 4493:"Oxford English Dictionary" 4366:Prestige (sociolinguistics) 4339: 3969:Southern Hemisphere English 3943:English language in England 3871:English language in England 3861:. This contrasts with many 3666:are pronounced differently. 3179:, respectively, in quality. 3085:, older pronunciations had 2977:, but this has merged with 2961:The vowel in words such as 2797:. RP is sometimes known as 107:to use by phoneticians. In 10: 10472: 9563:English as a lingua franca 8390:John Wells's phonetic blog 8334:A short history of English 8260:Finnish and English Vowels 8088:Rogaliński, Paweł (2011), 7819:Jenkins, Jennifer (2000), 7701:Gimson, Alfred C. (1980), 7467:Emma Watson: The Biography 6925:John Wells's phonetic blog 6797:John Wells's phonetic blog 6778:"Any young U-RP speakers?" 6763:John Wells's phonetic blog 6759:"the evidence of the vows" 6757:Wells, John (3 May 2011). 6108:John Wells's phonetic blog 5935:John Wells's phonetic blog 5771:"A World of Englishes: Is 5638:Halle & Mohanan (1985) 5295:Schwyter, Jürg R. (2016). 4136:David Attenborough's voice 4079:the North Wind and the Sun 3027:was a back vowel close to 2325:wrote that "the amount of 2245: 1940:) had largely merged with 1743:Diphthongs and triphthongs 1016:becomes voiced () between 309:Prevalence and perceptions 114: 18: 10362: 10169: 9963: 9735: 9680: 9543:Broad and general accents 9525: 9478: 9453:regional and occupational 9433: 9420: 9413: 9325: 9286: 9234: 9212: 9152: 9084: 8949: 8938: 8883: 8865: 8838: 8810: 8773: 8750: 8689: 8651: 8574: 8565: 8554: 8545: 8297:Introduction to phonetics 8281:10.1017/S0025100312000345 8244:(3rd ed.), Longman, 8208:10.1017/S0022226700002632 8138:10.1017/S0025100307003131 8028:10.1017/S0025100304001768 7919:, Oxford University Press 7876:Ladefoged, Peter (2004), 7787:10.1017/S0022226700007052 7731:10.1017/S0266078405001069 7555:Cruttenden, Alan (2014), 7537:Cruttenden, Alan (2008), 7470:. Kings Road Publishing. 6549:Oxford English Dictionary 6405:Collins & Mees (2013) 6256:Roca & Johnson (1999) 5796:Roca & Johnson (1999) 5371:. Cambridge. p. xii. 4871:Kipling's English History 4846:Collins & Mees (2003) 4499:. Oxford University Press 4006:and sometimes even after 3990:In traditional RP is an 3526: 3470: 3459: 3451: 3440: 3421: 3399: 3388: 3363: 3328: 3320: 3317: 3309: 3306: 3277: 1883: 1771: 1766: 1624:The vowels called "long" 1616:"Long" and "short" vowels 1600:The long mid front vowel 1099: 1094: 1089: 1087: 1023: 753: 715: 713: 706: 693: 691: 624: 622: 620: 604: 602: 600: 589: 573: 571: 555: 530: 519: 517: 506: 483: 478: 473: 466: 461: 456: 451: 385:Oxford English Dictionary 258:Kipling's English History 7970:Pearce, Michael (2007), 7703:Pronunciation of English 7634:: CS1 maint: location ( 6551:(Second ed.). New York: 6443:The Phonetics of English 6224:, p. 115, para 458. 5686:Collins & Mees (2003 5674:Collins & Mees (2003 4919:Kortmann, Bernd (2004). 4869:Laski, M., comp. (1974) 4575:"Received Pronunciation" 4327:Archbishop of Canterbury 2922:appearing in words like 2918:with an extra diphthong 2304:gives both variants for 1069:Collins & Mees (2003 797:postalveolar approximant 737: 735: 702: 695: 656: 649: 642: 635: 613: 606: 523: 521: 510: 508: 499: 497: 349: 237:Pronunciation of English 9923:Regional North American 8427:Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk 8367:'Hover & Hear' R.P. 8323:English Dialect Grammar 8240:Wells, John C. (2008), 8222:Wells, John C. (1982), 8166:The Dialects of England 8152:Shockey, Linda (2003), 7696:, London: Edward Arnold 7596:Crystal, David (2005), 6553:Oxford University Press 6525:The Chambers Dictionary 5197:. Arnold. p. 204. 4807:"Review of CPD in ELTJ" 4361:Linguistic prescription 4199:, aristocrat and writer 4148:Gyles Brandreth's voice 3873:and with many forms of 3632:The indefinite article 2473:Oxford University Press 2002:, if that consonant is 1751:Diphthongs of RP. From 1721:) is not as universal. 985:) is more often a weak 316:William Ewart Gladstone 35:phonetic transcriptions 10347:Dialects and varieties 9918:Received Pronunciation 9763:American Sign Language 8721:Received Pronunciation 8475:Newport, Pembrokeshire 8451:Hexham, Northumberland 8196:Journal of Linguistics 8083:, Blackwell Publishing 7915:McArthur, Tom (2002), 7892:, Palgrave Macmillan, 7853:(9th ed.), Heffer 7849:Jones, Daniel (1967), 7840:Jones, Daniel (1926), 7775:Journal of Linguistics 7598:The Stories of English 6304:Jones, Daniel (1957). 5066:"A Notorious Estimate" 4217:, author and historian 4165: 4149: 4137: 4120: 4030: 3973:North American English 3801:. Hence, for example, 3555:) to be realised as a 2837: 2490:Upton's reform symbol 2449: 2427: 2421: 2415: 2409: 2403: 2389: 2355:have a dislike of the 2167:Further simplified as 2045:RP also possesses the 1987:, as explained above. 1756: 1076: 1060: 1048: 1037: 411:, (now republished as 344: 254: 121:Received Pronunciation 65:Received Pronunciation 32:This article contains 8915:Multicultural Toronto 8081:A Course in Phonology 8061:Roach, Peter (2011), 8043:Roach, Peter (2009), 8006:Roach, Peter (2004), 7988:Petyt, K. M. (1985), 7878:Vowels and Consonants 7643:Elmes, Simon (2005), 7325:"Voices - Your Voice" 7004:"RP back in fashion?" 6506:Walker, John (1824). 6417:de Jong et al. (2007) 5064:Windsor Lewis, Jack. 4163: 4147: 4135: 4090: 4029: 3919:RP has undergone the 3617:Word-specific changes 3583:glottal reinforcement 3572:the wine-whine merger 2873:were pronounced with 2848:Vowels and diphthongs 2823: 1750: 1066: 1054: 1043: 1031: 903:) or, in the case of 901:glottal reinforcement 795:in RP is generally a 249: 9076:Western Pennsylvania 8492:12 July 2019 at the 8480:22 July 2019 at the 8468:20 July 2019 at the 8456:16 July 2019 at the 8420:18 July 2019 at the 8359:22 July 2019 at the 7871:, pp. 1813–1816 6793:"David Attenborough" 6395:, pp. 126, 133. 6258:, pp. 135, 186. 6104:"the Lindsey system" 5988:Jack Windsor Lewis. 5760:, pp. 241, 243. 5463:Pronunciation Models 5461:Brown, Adam (1991). 4992:Burrell, A. (1891). 4805:Jack Windsor Lewis. 4728:Jack Windsor Lewis. 4702:Jack Windsor Lewis. 4377:Notes and references 4346:Accents (psychology) 4239:Christopher Hitchens 4174:British Royal Family 3217:As noted above, the 2909:distinction between 2834:de Jong et al. (2007 2824:A comparison of the 2777:Historical variation 2457:Alternative notation 2443:) and the unrounded 2164:Loss of mid-element 1674:in the word 'ridge' 944:voiceless consonants 789:unstressed syllables 241:University of Oxford 151:Alexander John Ellis 10272:Proto-Indo-European 9928:White South African 9613:Mid-Atlantic accent 9204:Trinidad and Tobago 8444:6 July 2019 at the 8432:19 May 2019 at the 7906:Lodge, Ken (2009), 7618:Ellis, Alexander J. 7606:DuPonceau, Peter S. 7376:The Daily Telegraph 7073:. 13 October 2014. 6951:The Daily Telegraph 6124:(5 December 2006). 5277:, 28 September 2022 5153:"Language and Time" 4371:U and non-U English 4356:Mid-Atlantic accent 4215:Lady Antonia Fraser 4164:Stephen Fry's voice 3881:. In words such as 3238: 3153:THOUGHT-NORTH-FORCE 3144:is symbolized /əʊ/. 2907:There used to be a 2799:the Queen's English 2612: 2487:Traditional symbol 2480: 2439:(there rendered as 2154: 1651:pre-fortis clipping 1357: 1084: 446: 445:Consonant phonemes 157:Although a form of 22:The Queens' English 10456:Standard languages 9136:Pennsylvania Dutch 8299:, Englewood Cliffs 7755:Linguistic Inquiry 7349:on 5 December 2022 7164:. 25 January 2011. 6726:carry, very, Paris 6663:, pp. 167 ff. 6651:, pp. 253 ff. 6639:, pp. 228 ff. 6600:, pp. 196 ff. 6441:Ward, Ida (1939). 6419:, pp. 1814–5. 6236:"Funny old vowels" 6153:on 30 October 2021 5488:, pp. 325–52. 4573:Robinson, Jonnie. 4229:, actor and writer 4179:David Attenborough 4166: 4150: 4138: 4031: 3562:(also transcribed 3541:⟨wh⟩ 3237: 2938:is transcribed as 2838: 2815:Harry Enfield Show 2803:Queen Elizabeth II 2610: 2478: 2150: 1757: 1352: 1079: 1077: 1061: 1049: 1038: 811:Voiceless plosives 444: 224:Jack Windsor Lewis 143:received standard, 10433: 10432: 9933:Standard Canadian 9674:world's languages 9636: 9635: 9521: 9520: 9321: 9320: 9230: 9229: 9148: 9147: 9144: 9143: 9069:Pacific Northwest 8930:Standard Canadian 8861: 8860: 8806: 8805: 8746: 8745: 8330:Wyld, Henry C. 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More recently 1976: 1972: 1963: 1959: 1947: 1943: 1931: 1919: 1914: 1904: 1899: 1898: 1897: 1891: 1876: 1871: 1861: 1856: 1855: 1854: 1848: 1838: 1833: 1832: 1831: 1825: 1815: 1810: 1809: 1808: 1802: 1792: 1787: 1786: 1785: 1779: 1759: 1758: 1738: 1700: 1696: 1677: 1673: 1665: 1661: 1635: 1631: 1607: 1603: 1580: 1552: 1532: 1521: 1509: 1497: 1484: 1483: 1482: 1476: 1456: 1455: 1454: 1448: 1441: 1440: 1439: 1433: 1419: 1418: 1417: 1411: 1404: 1397: 1396: 1395: 1389: 1358: 1351: 1334: 1315: 1295: 1275: 1255: 1235: 1207: 1188: 1174: 1167: 1160: 1153: 1135: 1128: 1114: 1109: 1085: 1078: 1074: 1015: 1000: 992: 984: 941: 937: 933: 929: 906: 894: 890: 886: 882: 871: 859: 855: 851: 847: 840: 836: 828: 824: 820: 816: 806: 794: 791:. The consonant 782: 778: 774: 770: 766: 751: 742: 733: 724: 707: 700: 689: 682: 675: 668: 661: 654: 647: 640: 629: 618: 611: 594: 587: 580: 569: 562: 553: 546: 535: 528: 515: 504: 491: 447: 443: 368:Second World War 327:J. 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Du Ponceau 54: 50: 10471: 10470: 10466: 10465: 10464: 10462: 10461: 10460: 10436: 10435: 10434: 10429: 10358: 10312:Scottish Gaelic 10165: 10019:Standard Modern 9959: 9771:Modern Standard 9731: 9676: 9667: 9637: 9632: 9517: 9474: 9429: 9409: 9317: 9313:Solomon Islands 9282: 9226: 9208: 9140: 9131:New York Latino 9106:American Indian 9086: 9080: 8941: 8934: 8875: 8857: 8843:Channel Islands 8834: 8802: 8769: 8742: 8685: 8647: 8557: 8541: 8527: 8494:Wayback Machine 8482:Wayback Machine 8470:Wayback Machine 8458:Wayback Machine 8446:Wayback Machine 8434:Wayback Machine 8422:Wayback Machine 8361:Wayback Machine 8345: 8340: 8302: 8301: 8252: 8234: 8162:Trudgill, Peter 8104: 8103: 8100: 8073: 8055: 8010: 7983:(10th ed.) 7926:College English 7900: 7813: 7714: 7655: 7627: 7626: 7590: 7569: 7549: 7531: 7511: 7494: 7489: 7488: 7478: 7462: 7458: 7445: 7444: 7440: 7428: 7426: 7417: 7416: 7410: 7409: 7405: 7392: 7391: 7387: 7366: 7362: 7352: 7350: 7341: 7340: 7336: 7323: 7322: 7318: 7305: 7303: 7294: 7293: 7289: 7284: 7280: 7268: 7266: 7257: 7256: 7250: 7249: 7245: 7233: 7231: 7222: 7221: 7215: 7214: 7210: 7200: 7198: 7183:Daily Telegraph 7173: 7169: 7162:dialectblog.com 7156: 7155: 7151: 7139: 7137: 7128: 7127: 7121: 7120: 7116: 7104: 7102: 7093: 7092: 7086: 7085: 7081: 7069: 7068: 7064: 7051: 7050: 7046: 7034: 7032: 7023: 7022: 7016: 7015: 7011: 7000: 6993: 6983: 6981: 6971: 6962: 6941: 6932: 6921:"EE, yet again" 6917: 6913: 6903: 6895: 6893: 6891:GYLES BRANDRETH 6883: 6879: 6870: 6866: 6858: 6856: 6847: 6846: 6842: 6832: 6830: 6808: 6804: 6789: 6785: 6774: 6770: 6755: 6746: 6738: 6734: 6721: 6717: 6709: 6695: 6691: 6683: 6679: 6671: 6667: 6659: 6655: 6647: 6643: 6635: 6628: 6620: 6616: 6608: 6604: 6596: 6592: 6582: 6580: 6563: 6559: 6546: 6542: 6535: 6522: 6521: 6517: 6504: 6500: 6493: 6479: 6475: 6468: 6454: 6450: 6439: 6435: 6427: 6423: 6415: 6411: 6403: 6399: 6391: 6387: 6379: 6375: 6364: 6360: 6354:Wikström (2013) 6352: 6348: 6338: 6336: 6330: 6323: 6316: 6302: 6298: 6292:Trudgill (1999) 6290: 6286: 6278: 6274: 6266: 6262: 6254: 6250: 6240: 6238: 6232: 6228: 6220: 6216: 6208: 6204: 6196: 6192: 6184: 6180: 6175: 6166: 6156: 6154: 6137: 6133: 6119: 6115: 6100: 6096: 6081: 6077: 6069: 6062: 6058:, p. xxix. 6054: 6047: 6041:Newbrook (1999) 6039: 6035: 6027: 6023: 6008: 6004: 5994: 5992: 5985: 5981: 5973: 5969: 5961: 5954: 5946: 5942: 5927: 5923: 5908: 5904: 5896: 5892: 5884: 5880: 5870: 5868: 5866:"Blog Nov 2009" 5862: 5858: 5848: 5846: 5840: 5836: 5826: 5824: 5818: 5814: 5806: 5802: 5794: 5790: 5780: 5778: 5769: 5768: 5764: 5756: 5752: 5744: 5740: 5732: 5728: 5720: 5716: 5708: 5704: 5696: 5692: 5684: 5680: 5672: 5668: 5660: 5656: 5648: 5644: 5636: 5632: 5624: 5620: 5612: 5608: 5600: 5596: 5559: 5555: 5547: 5540: 5532: 5525: 5517: 5504: 5496: 5492: 5484: 5480: 5473: 5459: 5455: 5441: 5439: 5438:on 22 July 2019 5430: 5429: 5425: 5418: 5404: 5400: 5392: 5388: 5380: 5376: 5365: 5361: 5352: 5348: 5339: 5335: 5326: 5322: 5315: 5293: 5289: 5280: 5278: 5271: 5270: 5266: 5258: 5254: 5246: 5242: 5236:McArthur (2002) 5234: 5230: 5223:The Independent 5217: 5216: 5212: 5205: 5191: 5187: 5181:McArthur (2002) 5179: 5172: 5162: 5160: 5149: 5145: 5137: 5133: 5125: 5121: 5115:Pearsall (1999) 5113: 5109: 5102: 5088: 5084: 5074: 5072: 5062: 5058: 5048: 5046: 5039: 5035: 5031:, Oxford, 1934. 5029:Clarendon Press 5019: 5015: 4999: 4998: 4990: 4986: 4982:, p. viii. 4978: 4974: 4964: 4962: 4951: 4947: 4937: 4935: 4933: 4917: 4913: 4905: 4901: 4893: 4889: 4881: 4877: 4868: 4864: 4856: 4852: 4848:, pp. 3–4. 4844: 4840: 4832: 4825: 4815: 4813: 4803: 4799: 4792: 4778: 4774: 4764: 4762: 4752: 4748: 4738: 4736: 4726: 4722: 4712: 4710: 4700: 4696: 4690:Trudgill (1999) 4688: 4684: 4676: 4672: 4664: 4660: 4652: 4648: 4640: 4636: 4628: 4624: 4614: 4612: 4603: 4602: 4598: 4588: 4586: 4579:British Library 4571: 4560: 4552: 4548: 4540: 4536: 4528: 4524: 4516: 4512: 4502: 4500: 4491: 4490: 4486: 4478: 4474: 4466: 4462: 4455: 4441: 4437: 4429: 4425: 4415: 4413: 4404: 4403: 4396: 4388: 4384: 4379: 4342: 4287:Jacob Rees-Mogg 4185:Gyles Brandreth 4152: 4140: 4127: 4125: 4068: 4067: 4059: 4057: 4056: 4055: 4054: 4051: 4042: 4039: 4032: 4026: 4021: 4019:Spoken specimen 3821:are pronounced 3701:are homophones. 3644: 3619: 3540: 3536: 3218: 3187: 3183: 3152: 3148: 3120:phoneme (as in 3017: 3013: 3005:) all becoming 2927: 2854: 2850: 2836:, p. 1814) 2779: 2479:Upton's reform 2459: 2431:. However, the 2381: 2368: 2274:does not admit 2253: 2244: 1974: 1970: 1893: 1892: 1850: 1849: 1827: 1826: 1804: 1803: 1781: 1780: 1745: 1693:, the plosives 1680:Cruttenden 2014 1618: 1478: 1477: 1450: 1449: 1435: 1434: 1413: 1412: 1391: 1390: 1112: 1107: 1026: 989:; the sequence 879:Syllable final 876:when devoiced. 803:, but the sign 469: 442: 437: 429:British English 421: 381: 372:Wilfred Pickles 352: 347: 311: 302:British Library 271: 204: 181:. In 1922, the 167:Golden Triangle 117: 85:British English 83:form of spoken 62: 61: 60: 26: 17: 12: 11: 5: 10469: 10459: 10458: 10453: 10448: 10431: 10430: 10428: 10427: 10422: 10417: 10412: 10407: 10402: 10397: 10392: 10387: 10382: 10377: 10372: 10366: 10364: 10360: 10359: 10357: 10356: 10351: 10350: 10349: 10339: 10334: 10329: 10324: 10319: 10317:Serbo-Croatian 10314: 10309: 10304: 10299: 10294: 10289: 10288: 10287: 10282: 10274: 10269: 10264: 10259: 10254: 10249: 10244: 10239: 10234: 10229: 10224: 10219: 10214: 10209: 10204: 10199: 10194: 10189: 10184: 10179: 10173: 10171: 10167: 10166: 10164: 10163: 10158: 10153: 10152: 10151: 10143: 10138: 10133: 10128: 10123: 10118: 10113: 10108: 10103: 10098: 10093: 10088: 10083: 10078: 10073: 10068: 10063: 10062: 10061: 10056: 10048: 10043: 10038: 10033: 10032: 10031: 10026: 10021: 10013: 10012: 10011: 10006: 9998: 9993: 9992: 9991: 9986: 9978: 9973: 9967: 9965: 9961: 9960: 9958: 9957: 9952: 9947: 9946: 9945: 9940: 9935: 9930: 9925: 9920: 9915: 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p. 204. 5654: 5652:, p. 201. 5642: 5630: 5628:, p. 112. 5618: 5614:Shockey (2003) 5606: 5594: 5573:(2): 191–216. 5553: 5538: 5536:, p. 240. 5523: 5521:, p. 241. 5502: 5490: 5478: 5471: 5453: 5423: 5416: 5398: 5386: 5374: 5359: 5353:Zoe Thornton, 5346: 5333: 5320: 5313: 5287: 5264: 5252: 5250:, p. 319. 5248:Fishman (1977) 5240: 5228: 5225:. 13 May 2007. 5210: 5203: 5185: 5170: 5143: 5141:, p. 337. 5131: 5119: 5117:, p. xiv. 5107: 5101:978-1119055266 5100: 5082: 5056: 5033: 5013: 4984: 4972: 4945: 4932:978-3110175325 4931: 4911: 4899: 4887: 4885:, p. 323. 4883:Schmitt (2007) 4875: 4862: 4850: 4838: 4823: 4797: 4790: 4772: 4746: 4720: 4694: 4682: 4670: 4658: 4656:, p. 117. 4646: 4642:Jenkins (2000) 4634: 4622: 4596: 4558: 4554:Crystal (2005) 4546: 4542:Crystal (2003) 4534: 4522: 4510: 4484: 4482:, p. 259. 4472: 4460: 4453: 4435: 4423: 4394: 4381: 4380: 4378: 4375: 4374: 4373: 4368: 4363: 4358: 4353: 4348: 4341: 4338: 4337: 4336: 4333:Rowan Williams 4330: 4329:(2013–present) 4320: 4314: 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7057:The Economist 7054: 7048: 7040: 7027: 7019: 7013: 7005: 6998: 6996: 6980: 6976: 6969: 6967: 6965: 6956: 6952: 6947: 6939: 6937: 6935: 6926: 6922: 6915: 6908: 6892: 6888: 6881: 6874: 6855:. 23 May 2022 6854: 6850: 6844: 6829: 6825: 6821: 6817: 6813: 6806: 6798: 6794: 6787: 6779: 6772: 6764: 6760: 6753: 6751: 6749: 6741: 6736: 6729: 6727: 6716: 6710: 6704: 6700: 6693: 6686: 6681: 6674: 6669: 6662: 6657: 6650: 6645: 6638: 6633: 6631: 6623: 6618: 6612:, p. 76. 6611: 6606: 6599: 6594: 6578: 6574: 6573:The Spectator 6569: 6568:"An historic" 6561: 6554: 6550: 6544: 6536: 6534:0-550-10105-5 6530: 6526: 6519: 6512:. p. 25. 6511: 6510: 6502: 6494: 6488: 6484: 6477: 6469: 6463: 6459: 6452: 6444: 6437: 6430: 6425: 6418: 6413: 6406: 6401: 6394: 6389: 6382: 6377: 6369: 6362: 6355: 6350: 6335: 6328: 6326: 6317: 6311: 6307: 6300: 6294:, p. 62. 6293: 6288: 6282:, p. 22. 6281: 6276: 6269: 6264: 6257: 6252: 6237: 6230: 6223: 6218: 6211: 6210:Wright (1905) 6206: 6199: 6194: 6187: 6182: 6173: 6171: 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Wells 2029: 2017: 2005: 1992: 1978: 1967: 1955: 1951: 1939: 1935: 1921: 1916: 1911: 1910: 1906: 1901: 1896: 1888: 1887: 1882: 1878: 1873: 1868: 1867: 1863: 1858: 1853: 1845: 1844: 1840: 1835: 1830: 1822: 1821: 1817: 1812: 1807: 1799: 1798: 1794: 1789: 1784: 1776: 1775: 1770: 1764: 1761: 1760: 1754: 1749: 1740: 1736: 1731: 1727: 1724:According to 1722: 1720: 1718: 1713: 1709: 1703: 1692: 1687: 1685: 1681: 1669: 1657: 1653: 1652: 1647: 1641: 1639: 1638:diphthongized 1636:are slightly 1627: 1622: 1613: 1611: 1610:monophthongal 1598: 1596: 1594: 1588: 1586: 1576: 1574: 1568: 1566: 1560: 1558: 1548: 1546: 1540: 1538: 1528: 1527: 1517: 1515: 1505: 1503: 1493: 1481: 1475: 1471: 1469: 1467: 1465: 1462: 1461: 1458: 1453: 1447: 1443: 1438: 1432: 1428: 1426: 1423: 1422: 1416: 1410: 1406: 1403: 1399: 1394: 1388: 1384: 1382: 1379: 1378: 1375: 1372: 1370: 1367: 1365: 1362: 1360: 1359: 1355: 1350: 1348: 1347: 1341: 1339: 1330: 1328: 1323: 1321: 1311: 1309: 1303: 1301: 1291: 1289: 1283: 1281: 1271: 1269: 1263: 1261: 1251: 1249: 1243: 1241: 1231: 1229: 1223: 1221: 1215: 1213: 1203: 1194: 1192: 1190: 1187: 1183: 1181: 1178: 1177: 1173: 1169: 1166: 1162: 1159: 1155: 1152: 1148: 1146: 1143: 1142: 1139: 1137: 1134: 1130: 1127: 1123: 1121: 1118: 1117: 1111: 1106: 1105: 1102: 1097: 1092: 1086: 1082: 1070: 1065: 1058: 1053: 1047: 1042: 1035: 1030: 1021: 1019: 1011: 1007: 1004: 996: 988: 979: 977: 973: 969: 968: 964: 955: 952: 949: 948: 947: 945: 924: 922: 918: 914: 910: 902: 898: 877: 875: 867: 863: 844: 832: 812: 808: 802: 798: 790: 786: 762: 750: 746: 744: 741: 732: 728: 726: 723: 719: 717: 710: 705: 699: 688: 684: 681: 677: 674: 670: 667: 663: 660: 653: 646: 639: 632: 628: 627: 617: 610: 597: 593: 592: 586: 582: 579: 575: 568: 564: 561: 557: 552: 548: 545: 541: 538: 534: 533: 527: 514: 503: 494: 490: 489: 486: 481: 476: 471: 464: 459: 454: 449: 448: 432: 430: 426: 416: 414: 410: 406: 402: 401:John C. 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