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   On 2024-11-15 13:30:22 +0000, Adam Funk said:   
      
   > On 2024-11-15, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-11-15 10:20:14 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
   > ...   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
      
   I was once inva room of about ten people, and someone referred to a   
   "Scottish accent". I pointed out that there were two Scots in the room,   
   and their speech (one Dundee, one Inverness) were about as different as   
   one could imagine. That is possibly an extreme example, but Edinburgh   
   is very different from Glasgow,and indeed the upper-class accent (thik   
   of The   
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   Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly   
   in England until 1987.   
      
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