We sometimes call it "the Queen's English" or "BBC English." You know the type of thing: a crisp, cut-glass, slightly nasal voice saying "how now brown cow." It was the accent used by the English ...

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 follower ...

Amid the rich variety of British regional accents one always stood apart as the benchmark by which all speech should be judged - Received Pronunciation, the accent of "educated south-eastern England".

During the prelude to the War of 1812, Britain was forcibly conscripting American sailors into the British navy by claiming the sailor had a British accent and was actually British. Had the American ...

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