Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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One aspect of the differences between American and British English is that of pronunciation, as described in American and British English pronunciation differences. The General American (GA) and the British Received Pronunciation (RP) accents have some significant points of difference, described in this article. However, other regional accents in each country also show differences, for which see regional accents of English speakers.
Received Pronunciation has been the subject of many academic studies, and is frequently used as a model for teaching English to foreign learners. The widely repeated claim that only about two percent of Britons speak RP  is no more than a rough estimate and has been questioned by several writers, most notably by the phonetician J. Windsor Lewis.