Received Pronunciation (RP) was historically the standard British accent. And while it still exists, it is a class-based accent rather than a regional one. This is the accent deemed to be ‘posh’ ...

With a smile, Meghan answered, "Oh, some of the words that they still say with a British accent. So they'll say, 'Zebra,' and what else do they say? They have these little moments where it comes out.

Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the modern British accent is known as Received Pronunciation, or RP. There are a ton of different accents in the UK, but the Oxford ...