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AlexD

Flippancy aside, what’s the root of the tendency for people with RP accents to believe they don’t have an accent? The BBC?

With me it’s just my solipsistic only-child syndrome, but there must be other reasons.

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ffm in reply to @AlexD

Flippancy aside, what’s the root of the tendency for people with RP accents to believe they don’t have an accent? The BBC?

I assumed it was because the whole point of RP was to try to create a standardised English accent that could be understood by anyone across the whole country/empire/world

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AlexD in reply to @ffm

Yeah, and I guess the whole idea of RP (or whatever you want to call it) is that it's a non-regional accent. Although arguably it's an accent associated with the south of England.

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