PUBLIC SCHOOL PRONUNCIATION
PUBLIC SCHOOL PRONUNCIATION, short form PSP. The name chosen by Daniel JONES for the model of English in his ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY (1917). In the edition of 1926 he changed it to RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION (RP). See PUBLIC SCHOOL ENGLISH.
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