What kind of RP (received pronunciation) do you speak?!?

Question

What kind of RP (received pronunciation) do you speak?!?

Answer 1

I have a Sarf Lundon accent but I can modulate it if I really have to. To actually hear someone in the street who sounds like me is now a bloody novelty as the majority sound either Polish, African, pseudo Caribbean unless the person is 40 or older, Asian and every bloody accent under the sun apart from from the indigenous British!

Answer 2

I don't.

You get my Kairdiff (Cardiff) accent,and that's it.

'aark 'aark the laark,frum Kairdiff Aarms Paark'.



@ rickman - Kairdiffian,definitely isn't a 'Welsh' accent in the way people would think.

As for S.A,it's at its best straight from the barrel.

When I went to Glasgow,they said I talked too quickly!

Answer 3

Every one should speak proper,like what one does.

Innit.

I'M told,that I speak "relaxed BBC ",,whatever that means.

Answer 4

I find some young people in Britain very difficult to understand, they seem to be trying to speak like gangsters, which I'm not altogether sure that they are not. LOL.

Answer 5

I have a norf London accent, like it or lump it.

Answer 6

Straight English - with no accent as I was shipped about a lot as a child. Did a lot of singing in my youth so I am easy to lip read and comprehend. Worst accent I have on staff is a guy from Memphis America, who moved to Cornwall in his early twenties, moved back to Tupelo America, returned back to the UK and lived in Newcastle upon Tyne before moving to Walsall in the English Midlands.



Very odd speech patterns and accent.

Answer 7

I do not speak Received Pronunciation, I have an Estuary English accent, living in north Kent close to the Thames.

Answer 8

I get slagged by my family as they say I speak fairly posh, I don't think I do, just that I travelled loads & lived in many different places so do not have a strong Irish accent....more neutral ..........but you can still tell I am Irish

Answer 9

Yorkshire.



Tha nos.



Lol.

Answer 10

Yank here.



"RP" is a new concept to me, although I've studied American English, French, German and Russian all my life.



My concern is that the mellifulous, flowing English we Yanks hear from the citizens of the UK will die.



That is why I watch almost exclusively BBC programs: that sublime, polished, precise English. I'm old school: when I hear Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, et al, speak, I swoon. Even that mindless Ed(w)ina Monsoon's spoken word was a delight to me back in the 1990s. Let it be Hyacinth Bucket's English and I am repelled-probably because the woman is innately dishonest.



Only God knows what will become of American English. To hear a Southern girl from the deep South speak is nearly like hearing fingernails going down a chalkboard to me. I suppose it's the affectation behind it. I have no idea where the accent and English of my redneck neighbor came from: "phlegm" is pronounced "flame," not "flem." "Can't" comes out "cayyynt." "Fish" inexpliably is "feesh." Horrible sounds to me: I was born in Virginia (the gateway to the south and the USAs oldest imported culture) and spent my formative years in Philly ("beautiful"= "bee-yoo-tee-full" (very quickly) , he was born in NYC, but immeditately shipped to Alabama for his formative years. We're two Yanks, two Southerners, and we sound like we're from different dimensions.



But I routinely get stopped in my tracks by American English. I once drove a Renault 5 to Texas from Virginia-a 3 day adventure for me I still think about. While eating, a charming girl in Texarkana (literally between the two states of Texas and Arkansas) asked me "wan' sum 'kate-chip'? I had no idea she was asking me if I "wanted ketchup," and probably thought me a little dense.



The most amusing Yank English comes from our African American citizens. Their inventiveness with our wonderful (nearly) common language never ceases to amaze. If you speak poorly of someone, you "dis" them. If you're being nosey about someone's busniness, you're "dippin'." Also, the New York City denizens ability to combine profound profanity with common sense and insight and deliver it all within a microsecond of time is something, that, as a Yank, I'm simply proud of. For the people of the UK, it may make the hair stand up on your necks, whatta I kno'?



The English that we don't tolerate is affected English. Can't transliterate it for you, but you'll know it when you hear it-think of yuyppies summering in the Hamptons-that nonsense. Cringeworthy.



This has doubtless has nothing to do with RP, but it was fun to communicate with you, nonetheless. Have a good week.

Answer 11

RP is not an accent, it developed for broadcasting in the days when wireless reception was intermitent and could be crackly hence a need for clear pronunciation which was recieved through the wireless reciever by the listener ie. the 'recieved pronunciation' In the early days of radio broadcasting there were many regional accents which could not clearly be understood at times on the radio and a standard pronunciation was developed. Yes there are naturally occuring accents which may be percieved as 'posh' and always will be but they are not RP.

Answer 12

I learnt my English from listening to colonials so it sounds a little old fashioned. I have noticed a change to a better sounding diction both in my children and grand children. I have been told I speak posh which is not an accolade I want

Answer 13

@ bear I lived in Cardiff and had to relearn English so the Welsh could understand my cockney twang and was constantly told to slow down as they could not understand anything I said so now I speak somewhere between Welsh and English .

On a couple of pints of brains S.A its a small wonder the Welsh can speak at all:)

Answer 14

I am from Birmingham, but have lived in London for over a decade. My accent is a mixture of Brummie, Cockney, and bits of posh when I need to.

Answer 15

I know my accent is hard to place as a phonetics professor, who prided himself on placing accents, couldn't. I told him not to be too hard on himself as my accent encompasses North and South London with flecks of American (West Coast) and the Midlands...