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The Year That Killed Received Pronunciation (RP)

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Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why. 0:00 Introduction 1:04 MyHeritage 2:45 A. C. Gimson's book 5:33 The 1960's 10:30 Advanced RP 14:02 Beautiful working class? 16:18 Satirizing RP 17:35 Stigmatization of poshness 18:08 Relaxing the front vowels 20:00 What *didn't* change 21:46 The fate of the term 'RP' Piper Queenslander Soldier Portraits Pillenwekker That Was The Week That Was Interview with John Profumo Harold Wilson and Beatles

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