Jan Leeming has suggested that she no longer gets work because of her “RP” accent. The former BBC newsreader joked that she doesn’t “tick” modern boxes because she speaks in received pronunciation (RP ...

Fantasy books and films are a massive hit with both readers and spectators. Although the tales occur in a fictional realm, the characters always speak with British accents instead of American accents.

With viewers criticizing Denzel Washington’s American accent in the “Gladiator 2” trailer, we explore why the Received Pronunciation (RP) English accent is still so entrenched in Hollywood historical ...

There are different ways people speak English based on their country of origin - the way people from a particular country speak is known as an accent. The British accent, especially Received ...