Re: [NTLK] OT - Do you speak BBC English?

From: Scott Rogers <srogers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 15:27:31 EDT

I think by "BBC English" you mean RP (short for "received
pronunciation") which is the kind of standardized dialect Britons
learn in elocution lessons. There's a pretty valid reason for this:
dialects within Britain vary wildly from town to town and region to
region.

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