Former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has sparked debate after joking she is less likely to find work in television these days due to her received pronunciation accent. Leeming, 82, replied to a ...

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The activities and resources in this part of the site are designed to give an introduction to certain features of standard British English pronunciation, which is sometimes called Received ...

Former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has suggested she no longer gets work because of her received pronunciation accent. The broadcaster joked that she doesn’t “tick modern boxes” on account of ...

ACTOR Ken Stott has launched an attack on the late Lord Reith, saying the historical dominance of received pronunciation (known as RP) added to an “English culture of a feeling of superiority ...

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“such a pronunciation is now favoured by people born in the 1980s and later, and will, presumably, in time prevail, unspeakably uncouth though it may appear to older Received Pronunciation speakers.

The broadcaster joked that she doesn’t “tick modern boxes” on account of her voice and that the English language was “being mangled” on television. In a recent tweet, responding to a ...