"receive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Terms such as accent, Received Pronunciation, dialect, slang or style might be introduced to make more precise distinctions which are required for an understanding of linguistic diversity.
- Therefore, it has carried a sense of higher class in most aspects of life, in the same way as Received Pronunciation in English.
- We do not, however, see it as the school's place to enforce the accent known as Received Pronunciation.
- For example in the United Kingdom, Received Pronunciation of the English language is associated with the traditional upper class.
- They used to call it "Received Pronunciation," and it was what all the radio and television presenters spoke before regional and ethnic accents came into fashion.
- The phenomenon is common in some varieties of English, particularly Received Pronunciation, when a diphthong is followed by schwa.
- Mark Twain spoke with a southern drawl which softened the crisp English Received Pronunciation of Muttlebury.
- This is Received Pronunciation specifically, but other standards have emerged since the early 20th century (General American, General Australian).
- Though many still speak the Queen's English, or the plummy, southern English known as Received Pronunciation, there is a good deal of room for variation now.
- The United States does not have a concrete 'standard' accent in the same way that Britain has Received Pronunciation.
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