The standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England.
‘Standard English at that time was British English with received pronunciation.’
‘We should remember that Gladstone had a strong Merseyside accent, and that received pronunciation is largely an artefact of the broadcast era.’
‘The Doctor is a scientist and an intellectual, and a lot of people seem to think you can only be those things if you speak with received pronunciation which, of course, is rubbish.’
‘All were more or less informed by the desire to distance Shakespeare in performance from the perceived colonial baggage of received pronunciation, and stage English.’
‘She speaks in breathless, giggly received pronunciation.’
‘Clare Francis speaks with the sort of received pronunciation you might expect from a former yachtswoman brought up in the Home Counties.’
‘Gone is the Doctor's received pronunciation and upper class background.’
‘You have to relish the language but you don't force it into received pronunciation because that would kill it.’
‘She was still in the midst of the old world of received pronunciation and velvet smoking jackets.’
‘But Himalaya is the received pronunciation, certainly in the UK, so I didn't want to sound as though I was being too clever.’
‘Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word.’
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