Entertainment / Literature / Received Pronunciation: The accent used by upper class British citizens--usually considered a prestigious or 'classy' pronunciation. Linguists refer to this accent by the abbreviation RP. [One personal aside--for any computer users reading this who are working with speech recognition software, my wife has found that artificially imitating an 'RP' accent almost doubles her computer's consistency in speech recognition for voice commands--at least when working with Macintosh software!]
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Entertainment / Literature / Retarded Pronunciation: An old-fashioned way of pronunciation that lingers in one dialect even after a newer pronunciation has been accepted by other dialects in the same language. Contrast with advanced pronunciation. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Spelling Pronunciation: An unhistorical way of pronouncing a word based on the spelling of a word. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Advanced Pronunciation: In linguistics, John Algeo defines this as an early instance of a historical sound change in progress (311). This is the opposite of a retarded pronunciation, in which an older pronunciation lingers i MORE