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Tue Feb 20, 2007 22:10 pm How do you pronounce English?

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In the article Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?, available at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/rphappened.htm ,Professor John C. Wells discusses changes within the RP accent in the twentieth century.

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Loss of tapped /r/. A further change from this period was the loss of the alveolar tap [ɾ] as a usual realization of /r/ between vowels, as in very sorry, better off. It has been replaced by the ordinary approximant [ɹ].

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Jones pronounced actual as /ˈ?ktjuəl/, a variant that nowadays would be perceived as mannered or indeed artificial: we say /ˈ?ktʃuəl, ˈ?ktʃl, ˈ?ktʃo/.

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Tensing of final and prevocalic /ɪ/. The final vowel in words such happy, coffee, valley was traditionally identified with the /ɪ/ of bit. But many speakers nowadays identify it with the /iː/ of beat.

Are these changes apparent in your speech?

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