Pronunciation varieties of English.

It is generally considered that the orthoepic norm of British English is "Received Pronunciation" (RP), though, as many scholars state, it is not the only variety of British English pronunciation that is recognized as the ortho- epic norm in present—day Britain.

Received Pronunciation (RP) was accepted as the phonetic norm of English about a century ago. It is mainly based on the Southern English regional type of pronunciation, but it has developed its own features which have given it a non—regional character, i.e. there is no region in Britain to which it is native. RP is spoken all over Britain by a comparatively small number of Ёпд— lishmen who have had the most privileged education in the country — public school education, (public schools being the best and most expensive fee- paying schools in the country). RP is not taught at these schools, "it is absorbed automatically by the pupils" (as D.Jones puts it [85]), for children are sent to live there at the age of eleven when pronunciation is most flexible. The children, isolated in the school from their parents and other children, contact only with their teachers and schoolmates, and very soon acquire the so-called "public school accent", or RP. As almost all the leading positions in the Cabi-net, the armed forces, the judiciary are occupied by those who have had public school education, RP is actually a social standard pronunciation of English. It is often referred to as the 'prestige accent'.

D. Abercrombie divides English people by the way they talk into three groups:

RP speakers of Standard English (those who speak Standard English without any local accent);

non—RP speakers of Standard English (those who speak Standard English with a regional accent);

dialect speakers

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