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The BBC and English pronunciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Graham Pointon
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Abstract

The Director of the BBC Pronunciation Unit follows our recent articles on RP and the Queen's English with a review of how his corporation has approached such thorny issues over the six decades of its existence

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English Today , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 1988, pp. 8 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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