The standard spoken English accent of the UK, abbreviated to 'RP', traditionally used by BBC newsreaders, the Royal Family and 'upper class' is fully called '(What?) Pronunciation'?
Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the "Concise Oxford English Dictionary" as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales. Peter Trudgill estimated in 1974 that 3 per cent of people in Britain were RP speakers, but this rough estimate has been questioned by the phonetician J. Windsor Lewis. Formerly, colloquially called "the King's English", RP enjoys high social prestige in Britain, being thought of as the accent of those with
Upper Peninsula English joining Scandinavians who moved on to Minnesota. The Yooper accent follows the local North Central (Upper Midwest) pronunciation system, but with the following noticeable additions: Upper Peninsula English Upper Peninsula (U.P.) English, also known as Yooper English, or colloquially as Yoopanese, is a variety of American English native to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (locally abbreviated as "U.P." and the basis for the endonym "Yooper"). Upper Peninsula English is considered a subset of North Central (or Upper Midwestern) English, an American regional dialect, or set of dialects, in transition. Although spoken throughout the U.P., it is primarily spoken in the