Re: First BBC Broadcast (14/11/1922)

On 2024-11-15, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:

On 2024-11-15 10:20:14 +0000, Ross Clark said:

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So the RP accent became known as "BBC English". The Advisory Committee
on Spoken English was set up in 1926 to provide approved pronunciations
for new words and foreign names, and as an authority to support news
readers against the inevitable complaints. A fascinating body in which
both Daniel Jones and George Bernard Shaw were involved.

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My recollection is that John Reith spoke as you'd expect a Scottish
Calvinist to speak, but he insisted that people who spoke on the
wireless ("radio" was lower class) should speak RP.

I know Scottish accents vary regionally, but by religion? Or are
Calvinists, Episcopalians, & Roman Catholics very unevenly distributed
geographically?


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