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From: Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
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Subject: Re: First BBC Broadcast (14/11/1922)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:30:22 +0000
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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?


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