Luke Thompson

That is written as RP.

So it's the sort of standard version.

It's often called BBC English.

It's often associated with the educated class, universities, sort of middle, middle upper class, educated people, southeast of England.

OK, right.

So you get the idea.

Heightened RP is a sort of posh accent.

You've got the royal family that you might hear in that TV show, The Crown.

And that's something in itself, like the aristocracy speak in a very particular way.

Like the Queen talks about, you know, this at this time of year, at this time of year, thoughts turn to questions of family, family.

You know, no one else really says family like that.

Family.

That's just a small example.

And then there's sort of posh RP, which I might associate with, I don't know, conservative politicians like Boris Johnson.

You know, Boris Johnson sort of, you know, he's got this kind of, you know, really, really posh sort of voice like this, you know.

Boris Johnson, of course, has got his own specific way of speaking.

But a lot of those people...

that Boris Johnson went to school and university with, like David Cameron and George Osborne, you know, they do sort of tend to have this, you know, pretty upper class sort of voice like this, you know.

And they might even drop a T sometimes, but then it's vowel sounds that will give them away.

Anyway, let's just consider RP to be the way that I speak, mostly.