{"id":737,"date":"2015-08-18T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=737"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:27:19","slug":"standard-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=737","title":{"rendered":"Variants of Standard English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><dfn title=\"Received Pronunciation\">RP<\/dfn> or not <dfn title=\"Received Pronunciation\">RP<\/dfn> &#8211; that is the Question \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Actors are often asked to speak&nbsp;using <dfn title=\"Received Pronunciation\">RP<\/dfn> or Standard English. There is fierce debate about what the spoken (as opposed to written) Standard English actually is and this section offers samples of Standard English speech which may also be useful to speakers of English as a second language (ESL).<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Contemporary RP<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Female voice recordings<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Sample 1: from <a title=\"Colchester, England\" href=\"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=322\">Colchester, England <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample 2: from <a title=\"Hertfordshire, England\" href=\"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=325\">Hertfordshire, England<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample 3: from <a href=\"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=487\">SE London, England<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample 4: from <a title=\"Stratford-upon-Avon, England\" href=\"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=550\">Stratford-upon-Avon, England<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Male voice recordings<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Sample 1: from&nbsp;<a title=\"Sussex, England\" href=\"http:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=551\">Sussex, England<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Heightened RP<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Sample 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=1286\">Female<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RP or not RP &#8211; that is the Question \u2026 Actors are often asked to speak&nbsp;using RP or Standard English. There is fierce debate about what the spoken (as opposed to written) Standard English actually is and this section offers samples of Standard English speech which may also be useful to speakers of English as &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/?page_id=737\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-administrator","post-737"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737\/revisions\/2046"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medea.rcs.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}