From: John Alexander Blyth
Subject: English pronunciation, was Re: Intonation and Diction Problems
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Pauline, and List,
1. The American style, appropriate for Barber etc.
and based somewhat on the midwestern standard, with maybe some eastern
seaboard and italianate vowels.
2. The English 'theatrical' (my term) style, with
some italianate elements, such as rolled 'r's in liaison, /i/ . Perhaps
sounding a little old-fashioned.
3. The English 'received pronunciation' style,
somewhat similar to (2.) but without those italianate elements.

This is what I hear, not an accepted standard of classification. john



At 20:07 09/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
>John Alexander Blyth wrote:
>
>> Even sung English has perhaps three accepted styles of classical
pronunciation.
>
>John, could you or anyone explain briefly what those styles are?
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Pauline
>_____________
>Pauline Ridel
> ridel-at-cybercable.fr
> "Everything should be made as simple as possible,
> but not simpler" (Albert Einstein)
>
John Blyth
Bass/Baritone (as opposed to Bass-Baritone) though I'm really a baritone
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada