"There may well be more RP speakers abroad than here," says David Crystal, the country's best-known authority on the English language.And RP has evolved.
In some Midland accents the diphthongs in throat and stone have been kept apart, whereas in RP they have fallen together.
Ericsson and Simon also cite studies like that of Hamilton and Sanford (1978), who asked subjects to make yes or no judgments about whether pairs of letters were in alphabetical order (like MO) or not (like RP) and then to describe retrospectively their method for arriving at the judgments.
This formula cannot be written as U Ra)(Rp).
A 2-place predicate R is invariant under permutation if for any permutation p, whenever Rxy holds, Rp(x p y) holds too.
Consider that Socrates, when asked what he thinks the good is, refuses to reply because he thinks beliefs without knowledge are shameful (Rp. 506c).
(The BBC's eschewal of received pronunciation – RP – is inverse snobbery: it was a useful instrument of pan-British comprehensibility. The regional accents that have replaced RP are vocal manifestations of identity politics, of parochial apartheid).
Wolff was a creative who could talk persuasive, sensible-sounding RP English, too, not mockney.
Her expertise is accents (Danish, Italian and RP English among them), and she has the uncanny ability to embody her characters.
