Received Pronunciation

English en Etymology Commonly attributed to Alexander John Ellis1869 1968 Alexander John Ellis Alexander John Ellis On Early English Pronunciation New York Greenwood Press 23 https://archive.org/details/onearlyenglishp09winkgoog/page/n36 In the present day we may, however, recognize a received pronunciation all over the country, not widely differing in any particular locality, and admitting a certain degree of variety. It may be especially considered as the educated pronunciation of the metropolis, of the court, the pulpit, and the bar. but already used earlier.scottish xiii For though the pronunciation of London is certainly erroneous in many words, it is undoubtedly the beſt; that is, not only the beſt by courteſy, and becauſe it happens to be the pronunciation of the capital, but the beſt by a better title; that of being more generally received:An English Pronouncing Dictionary 1924 1944 London J.M. Dent Daniel Jones Daniel Jones (phonetician) x https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94053/page/n15 Nevertheless the fact remains that people in every important centre often have opportunities of hearing the above-mentioned pronunciation either from residents who have had a public school education, or through the constant intercommunication with London, or through the school teachers, or last, but not least, through broadcasting. For these reasons I think it probable that this form of speech is more widely understood with ease in Great Britain than any other form would be. In what follows I call it ‘Received Pronunciation’ (abbreviation RP), for want of a better term. Proper noun Received Pronunciation en linguistics The form of pronunciation of the English language traditionally spoken by the educated classes of the south-east of England, considered to be a standard (see en received) for British English and used as such in the pronunciation schemes of most British dictionaries. Synonyms en BBC English King's English Queen's English RP <q:abbreviation> Derived terms en RP <q:abbreviation> Related terms en OP Original Pronunciation Translations form of English pronunciation Arabic: ar Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 公認發音 gōngrèn fāyīn Danish: da Dronningens engelsk, da korrekt engelsk, da højengelsk, da britisk engelsk, da Oxford-engelsk Dutch: nl Received Pronunciation Estonian: et kuninganna inglise keel Finnish: fi kuningattaren englanti German: de Schulenglisch n, de Britisches Englisch n Italian: it Received Pronunciation f Japanese: ja 容認発音 yōnin hatsuon Macedonian: mk ста́ндарден бри́тански и́зговор m Portuguese: pt Received Pronunciation f Russian: ru «общепри́нятое произноше́ние» n, ru «при́нятое произноше́ние» n, ru станда́ртное англи́йское произноше́ние n Spanish: es pronunciación recibida f References Portuguese Proper noun f 1 en Received Pronunciation English pronunciation used by the educated classes southeastern England