RP (Received pronunciation) vs POSH ENGLISH The Differences and the HISTORY Explained.

People spending fortunes and time at uni learning English . Den dae coma England an can na understand nuttin. Jokes

The word breeches is pronounced britches in cultured English and in RP.

It often in American

This guy doesn’t seem to have rp though…

I say old boy ,are these chaps friends of the great Rees-Mogg ?

Using our pee= rp

Is his accent RP?

bro is not speaking in rp

You said ' saff' instead of 'south' bit of cockney there 😂

what moron keeps the hello google/okay google/hey google command in the audio of their video?

How about the trend of hobnobbers affecting a borderline speech impediment, purposely pronouncing (or NOT pronouncing) R's like a 5 yr old who hasn't quite gotten it yet?

I grew up in England in the 80s and I am an Army brat. We all (my sisters and I) have RP accents so we fitted in in different schools every few years! Now I live in Australia and my accent is stuck in the 80/90s so I fear it’ll sound crazy old-fashioned by the time I’m old!

RP is an accent. It would be fascinating to see a similar comparison between RP and other Briish accents, but that could only be done one accent at a time and as there are hundreds we would soon get bored. Suffice to say there is no such thing as a good accent or a bad accent. There is, however bad grammar as well as there is lazy diction.

what he said: siri
what i heard : city

So basically... it should be called "the queen's english" vs "Queen's english". Lol

10:08 😂😂😂 that isn't how any American says that. "Awf-tin" or "awf-din" is how most Americans say often.

Here (in America) "public" schools are the shit schools, the publically funded schools. Private schools are the good ones. Why are they called "public" is the UK if only the rich ppl can go? Seems weird. Yeah, if you hear an American say they went to public schools they mean the opposite of what yall mean, lol. I went to public schools, my son goes to private.

Hello! I was born and raised in India. I have lived in the USA for the past 20 years (college & graduate school in the US too) but have not changed the way in which I speak. Accents have always fascinated me. My great grandfather was the last ruler of a princely state in India and his children all had governesses from England who passed away in India in the late 80's. My grandfather and his siblings had a hint of posh English but all the grand-children learned to speak in "received pronunciation". In England, everyone understands me but I have noticed that almost everyone has a regional accent. My mother and her cousins, maybe even I sometimes, might say "flaaahs" instead of "flowers" with no "w" or "r" sound. None of us have any British accents though. In India, I can tell someone's social class from they way in which they speak. In the US though, standard American English does not have much variation- so long as they pronounce their "t" and "d". The class system in America is mostly based on how much money someone has and has nothing to do with nobility.

“Where the f*ck is Yerp?” 😂

Nobody has mentioned the word "marvellous" which is so common in some English regions.

How lovely to hear someone speaking about the Queen's English.
I'm looking forward this Charlie nonsense comes to an end.

The presenter is using the glottal stop, eg lille bit, bo’lle for bottle…

RP and Posh are made-up accents. Nobody in the UK talks like that, only non-native English speakers so...

Genuinely posh people never use the word 'posh'!

He butchered that American accent its prounoced more like aweff-tin like in the word awe and tin like the metal we very much pronounce our t at least in often

American here: I say often the way you do, sir lol. But my accent is generally "non-regional"

i speak natural public school to RP when speaking with Americans, and American when speaking with most Brits, and historical posh when speaking to modern lower classes, such as , found in counsel housing.schemes.

In the north east, whatever your income occupation or social class, as in Scotland and Ireland, most people speak with the local dialect. The Solicitor and Dr speak with the same or similar dialect to the shop assistant or cleaner. Because of TV and being sent to live away from home for a few years now that even under average intellect people are sent to university, slightly more people in the regions adopt RP .

You don’t speak RP. You have an estuary accent - the mix of Cockney and home counties, a general south eastern Metropolitan working class accent.

I have a terrible habit of picking up regional accents that’s got me into trouble more than once, as people think I’m taking the mickey. (Mind you, it’s helpful in Bavaria😊)

POSH is an ancrynom, Port Outbound Starboard Homebound.

A theory on the Queen's accent, which was rather pawsh, is from her family's German heritage. The ae sound as in 'cat' is flattened into the 'e' sound that is common in German with words spelled with an a vowel (umlauted). The 'o' sound in 'off' is like an aw in the German language. 'Oo',as in goose sounded Germanic as the Queen spoke it,like the 'u' in the German gut, though not quite as along a vowel. The Queen's lineage had 200 years of German royalty in England, and German was spoken in the household, though she herself only knew a little. The royals did not invent RP, but they may have coloured it, being the top of the aspirational ladder, so to speak, for people that adopted RP to move upwards.

American here, this is absolutely fascinating. Question: I hear upper class British using a sort of Germanized subjunctive. So when reporting what others say but not wanting to pass judgment on it Michael Wood (a Classicist ---so British) uses the word "sayes" instead of says. Example: The Hittite source sayes Priam and Alexandros are dead. We don't do this in American English. What's up?

What is RP of "pronunciation" and "appreciation"? I am South African and pronounce the c in pronunciation like s and the c in appreciation like sh (although not all SA English speakers do).

my first time in London, I met a local girl at a party, and noticed she first started with a posh accent like she was high class - after hearing my Australian accent, she quickly devolved her accent down through middle class and ended up cockney ! I figured she was testing - first sounding tops - then matched my style to end up low class - pick the one you like ! 😉😅

The vast majority of people able to speak English aren't natives.Which is why these nuances, albeit interesting, are totally useless.

American English is so easy to understand.