How to speak the kings english?

@JTT,

I always thought JTT was male. But here we have references to "her".

JTT, could you please look in your pants and let us know. It's important somehow.

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How to speak the kings english?

centuries of inbreeding with selected cross breeding from the other inbred royal families

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@djjd62,

It also helps make you look like a horse.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

The actual term King's or Queen's English actually refers to a type of speech known as Received Pronunciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation

That just ain't so - and you should know better than trust that e-rag! Read any Victorian (pre-BBC, the lot of them). Arthur Conan Doyle's The Last Bow:

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“Oh, an Irish—American?”

“If you heard him talk you would not doubt it. Sometimes I assure you I can hardly understand him. He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king."

http://www.aolib.com/reader_2350_2.htm

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@High Seas,

I was talking about today, anyway, you don't know that RP is not what is referred to in your quotation.

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@izzythepush,

Indeed I do - Doyle never managed dialects or regional accents properly. Recall (if you ever knew it) that the person speaking in that sentence is German.

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@thack45,

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Bob's your uncle.

That brought a tear to my eye. My dear departed Mum who was Australian used to use that expression.

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@High Seas,

I don't think you've proven anything. Conan-Doylealso used to play football for Pompey, and attended a notorious seance in Beaulieu. That doesn't mean that when most people used the term King's (or Queen's) English they're referring to RP.

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@izzythepush,

In his dotage he also believed in fairies, but the point here is that "the King's English" doesn't necessarily refer to RP - you agree with me, I take it.

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@High Seas,

You can turn that on it's head and say that it doesn't refer to any other type of English. What do you define King's English as?

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@fresco,

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Nowadays, speaking with that accent can have negative social consequences.

The Wikipedia entry referenced somewhere above mentioned the fact that conservative RP is perceived negatively in some contexts.

What are the negative social consequences of speaking with that accent, especially as it is linked with education and privilege?

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@InfraBlue,

Politically Thatcher had to lose her RP accent and sound a bit more down to Earth, otherwise she would have appeared even more aloof. Cameron's finding his Etonian vowels are rubbing Scots up the wrong way and making the break up of the UK more likely.

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@izzythepush,

Thanks, izzy.

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@InfraBlue,

Think nothing of it.

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@izzythepush,

I think I need new reading glasses. At first glance I saw that phrase "Etonian vowels" as "Estonian vowels" and did a double-take. Smile

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@Lustig Andrei,

Just so long as you didn't read Etonian bowels.

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@izzythepush,

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Cameron's finding his Etonian vowels

Funny, he dont look Etonian

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@farmerman,

Oh he does. A typical chinless wonder.

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/cameron-bullingdon-club.jpg

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