FabSwingers.com forum: RP accents

By *olden_Road_to_Samarkand OP Man
3 days ago

wandsworth

What do we think?

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By *eroLondonMan
3 days ago

Mayfair

RP? Republic of Peru? 🇵🇪🦙

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
3 days ago

Manchester(ish).

Received Pronunciation ?

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By *eliWoman
3 days ago

Yes. To me anyway. Also a fan of the RP lite Home Counties accent.

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By *layful Sub BratWoman
3 days ago

Greater London

I have a bit of a weakness for regional accents. They just have far more character than RP.

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By *vaRoseWoman
3 days ago

Ankh-Morpork

Yes I rather like it, it has its own unique qualities rather like a regional accent does

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By *rish-blacksmithMan
3 days ago

Cork

Generally not. Makes me think of rheese mog

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By *0ng0 furyMan
3 days ago

Birkenhead

for comedy, yes

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By *he National ThrustMan
3 days ago

Horsham area, West Sussex

Nigella? Don't mind if I do....

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By *ermite12ukMan
3 days ago

Solihull and Romford

"Nigella? Don't mind if I do...."

Another vote for Nigella.

Both Nigella & Felicity Kendal have a seductive quality in their voices's, that could melt icebergs, imho. Those two and lots more, responsible for climate change?

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By *agic.MMan
3 days ago

Kent/London

You could have just said "posh accent"😒...instead you made me loose valuable SECONDS in googling what RP means 🙄...but yeah I love a posh accent 😍

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By *pankingNorfolkCouple
3 days ago

norwich ish

There is a difference between posh and RP. There is less braying like a horse in RP.

It is more the actors and news readers voice of old. And actually if you look at old vox pops from programmes like That’s Life you’ll find a lot of people putting on a more formal RP accent when speaking to a camera.

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By *xLedZepxx2Man
3 days ago

Didcot

My step mum was Irish though she had lived in London for years before she met my dad, she hated our local Berkshire/Oxfordshire rural country bumpkin accent so from a very young age I was made to speak properly, which in her mind was middle class home counties sort of close to RP, this didn't go down well with the other half of my family on my real mothers (died when I was 2) side because they were Scottish, however I spent so much time in Scotland as a child that I could switch easily between the 2 accents

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By *inkShyWoman
3 days ago

near Windsor

I have a modern RP accent, rather than Conservative, purely just because of where I live. I get told it's sexy, but I also have a bit of a lisp which is oddly the part that people like 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm not posh.. but Northerners think I am 😂

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By *ad NannaWoman
3 days ago

East London

I like the RP accent.

I don't always like the people who have one.

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By *ad NannaWoman
3 days ago

East London

Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles have a very polished RP accent. They say may instead of my.

The y sound on the endings of words is not i, but eh.

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By *issmorganWoman
3 days ago

Calderdale innit

Not.

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By *uckleburyfinnMan
3 days ago

Reading

Great examples, there's a couple of news readers too that would fall into this category as well. Jan Leeming for example.

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