Received Pronunciationnoun [ U ]
uk/rɪˌsiːvd prə.nʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˌsiːvd prə.nʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/abbreviation RP UK specializedthe standard way in which middle-class speakers of southern British English pronounce words
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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