tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post2737362719570423874..comments2024-01-08T18:25:51.974+00:00Comments on Kraut's English phonetic blog: BBC Radio 4 feature by Baron Bragg - part 1Krauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-4687017377753841992011-08-23T23:07:22.589+01:002011-08-23T23:07:22.589+01:00It is my considered opinion that Melvyn Bragg know...It is my considered opinion that Melvyn Bragg knows about as much about language as a tea-leaf knows about the history of the East India Company.John Maidmenthttp://blogjam.namenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-43562847567504922482011-08-21T14:10:57.426+01:002011-08-21T14:10:57.426+01:00Trudgill arrived at this figure by extrapolating t...Trudgill arrived at this figure by extrapolating the number of RP speakers within a random sample of Norwich English. And it was him who gave an article of 2001 the title "The death of RP?".Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-54017515023127053652011-08-21T12:54:49.334+01:002011-08-21T12:54:49.334+01:00Sounds about as annoying as I had feared.
Anyway,...Sounds about as annoying as I had feared.<br /><br />Anyway, I don't believe this 3% figure, and certainly not that it went significantly down since 1974. I hear RP everywhere on the streets and in the shops (yes, Tesco, not Fortnum's), and astonishingly not even that few people who speak it in a rather unmockneyfied version (maybe preglottalisation, but not glottal stops for older t, less open diphthongs &c.).Phillip Mindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801818752833289089noreply@blogger.com