Wally, what is RP? --- Wally Kairuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the girl is supposed to > be from southern usa, and > audrey sounded so RP all the time. > like john van tiel, i was exposed to a lot of > prejudice against american > english in my youth. the only acceptable variety in > this country was RP. > even today prospective english teachers must attend > phonetics laboratory > sessions 12 hours a week for 4 years to acquire an > RP accent. and very > conservative RP, at that: no glottal stops allowed! > wally, in my head making this e-mail sound as if > eleanor roosevelt were > reading it.
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