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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | © Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

RECEIVED STANDARD ENGLISH [Introduced by Henry Cecil Wyld]. An occasional technical term for the ACCENT of English generally referred to by phoneticians and EFL/ESL teachers as RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION. Compare RECEIVED STANDARD AND MODIFIED STANDARD, STANDARD ENGLISH.

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