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I've never actually heard that term before, though I am familiar with it being called the Queen's English, and BBC and Oxford English.

But commonly it would be considered "upper class" within England, and probably considered "English" outside the UK.



Yeah, I've heard it called that, but my Brit friends usually call it "posh." Incidentally, we have our own version of RP in the States, it's called the "Mid-Atlantic accent", many talking heads on news and radio are encouraged to imitate it if they come from the South of the US or New England.


FWIW : Oxford English and RP are different. Not to mention 'upper class English', which is a whole other ballgame. That is, of course, if you're English, when you can tell them apart within 5 seconds (yes, actually).

Personally, I have a 'perfect' RP accent (according to the Cambridge linguistics people who recorded me). But I find the whole class-antenna thing really irritating. So much so that I live in New York, where people just know I'm foreign, or putting on a fake accent.




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