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PUBLIC SCHOOL ENGLISH
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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PUBLIC SCHOOL ENGLISH. The English language as used in the public (in fact private) boarding- and day-schools of Britain, and especially England, the foremost of which are Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Harrow, Rugby, Charterhouse, and Shrewsbury (‘the Seven Public Schools’). The variety is distinguished primarily by the so-called
public school accent (known technically as
RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION) and to some extent by
public school slang, which tends to vary from school to school. See
PUBLIC SCHOOL PRONUNCIATION,
RECEIVED STANDARD AND MODIFIED STANDARD.
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