This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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Prof John Wells, phonetician at University College London who, I should imagine, needs little introduction, has an 2002 article up called “Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?”. As a fan of the RP as a standard phonetic description of English and as a target for ESL students, I’m sad to see RP pass away, but the [...]