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R

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation was originally defined as a regional standard associated with the south of England. Today, however, RP is merely an artificial construct which serves as a guideline for a socially more or less accepted standard of English, for example, the kind of English used by many BBC news readers. This variety had not received consideration at the outset.

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Rhoticity

In 'rhotic' accents /r/ is overtly realized in a wide variety of phonetic contexts, including post-vocalic environments, such as farm /fahrm/ or far /fahr/. In the non-rhotic accents /r/ is excluded from post-vocalic environments, thus /fɑ:m/ and /fɑ:/.

The rhotic accents include those typical of Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Barbados, certain western parts of England, and most of the United States, including General American.
The non-rhotic accents include those typical of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, certain parts of the United States, and most of England and Wales, including RP.