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####How to sound posh?(Part one)

Hi there! Good evening! Awfully nice to be here and that sort of thing. Um…I’m sorry who… who are you? I’m here to do the received pronunciation. The RP posh accent. I believe you must be mistaken. I’m here to do the RP accent. Oh! Certainly we can work together. I don’t mind, if it’s ok with you. Eh, very well, if we must. OK! Well, I suppose all represent the modern RP, basically people who wish to show a level of intelligent or class in their speech will generally speak as I do. And I suppose you’d represent them or archaic. Old-fashioned RP? Old-fashioned? I should wash your mouth out with soap and water. Yes. Now you should begin by telling them what RP is and is not.

OK well, RP goes by many different names. Standard English, Oxford English, the Queen’s English, BBC English. Well it is true in the past BBC news reporters were expected to speak in a similar style to the Queen. They would speak very upper class. For example, good evening, we interrupt this program to bring you special news bulletin. The Germans have bombarded British shores from the air. Ah American allies are here to lend a a helping hand. Lovely. Thank you. Whereas today’s BBC represents a more realistic range of British accents.

Today modern RP isn’t exactly a very specific way of speaking. Think of tom Hiddleston, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Emma Watson, Stephen Fry. They’re all on the spectrum of RP. But the way they speak isn’t exactly identical to one another. The main idea of RP today is using good enunciation, a wide range of vocabulary and just generally using the correct grammar. Unlike those bloody Kardashians who…who really leave a great deal to be desired in you know department. They may have rather splendid rea-ends boots here. Bottom of the barrel I say. Yes I ,mean. I… I… I’m excited the rear of the class. Eheh Right? Eheh. In fact I bet they were kept behind after school hehe. Ha ha ha Ha. I should say. What. Yes. Indeed. You finished. sorry yes. Indeed. Let’s begin with the sounds. We’ll sow you the differences between the modern RP and the older fashioned upper RP. Modern RP is more just about proper enunciation good full articulation of consonants, good pronunciation of consonants, especially Ts, for example. Try not to use glottal Ts wherever possible. For example, wate, not wa’e. Bette not be’e. However when there’s a T sound at the end of the word, sometimes we don’t say it. For example, absolutely, definitely, United States. In regular RP we use something called R linking or R joining. In a sentence such as this “India and China”, India ends with an æ sound. The next word begins with an æ sound. So in regular RP we join them with an R. For example, India run China whereas an upper RP you wouldn’t di that. India and China. One important thing to note is RP is Non-rhotic which means we don’t pronounce the R sound. For example in this word Americans might pronounce it “hard” with an R sound but in RP we don’t. We pronounce it /hɑːd/. One important thing to remember with in these words the “A” is pronounced like a /ɑː/. Class, Task, Ask, Grass…whereas in these words, the “A” sound is pronounced like an /æ/. Man, Can, Hand, Maths. The sound in more common English accents come from further back in the mouth, as Jason Statham pointed out in his video. Whereas in RP and upper RP, the sounds come from further forward in the mouth. The rule is this: the higher level of RP, the posher the accent, the further forward in the mouth is where the sound would come from. In upper RP, the jaw move as little as possible. Think Keira Knightley! She speaks with a very good posh accent, but she looks like a ventriloquist dummy when she speaks because her mouth barely moves.

And that all lands to make a sound posher. So, I think that’s probably… we have time for it, you probably have to be somewhere? Yes, I gotta be going! I’m… a bit in a rush.. So, what time is now?