Editing Received Pronunciation (section)

===Alternative names===
Some linguists have used the term "RP" while expressing reservations about its suitability.{{sfnp|Cruttenden|2008|pp=77–80}}{{sfnp|Jenkins|2000|pp=13–16}}{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=117}} The Cambridge-published ''English Pronouncing Dictionary'' (aimed at those learning English as a foreign language) uses the phrase "BBC Pronunciation", on the basis that the name "Received Pronunciation" is "archaic" and that [[BBC News]] presenters no longer suggest high social class and privilege to their listeners.{{sfnp|Jones|2011|p=vi}} Other writers have also used the name "BBC Pronunciation".{{sfnp|Ladefoged|2004}}{{sfnp|Trudgill|1999}} The term 'The Queen's English' has also been used by some writers.<ref name='Robinson'/>

The phonetician [[Jack Windsor Lewis]] frequently criticised the name "Received Pronunciation" in his blog: he has called it "invidious",<ref>{{cite web |author=Jack Windsor Lewis |url=http://www.yek.me.uk/reviewepd.html |title=Review of the Daniel Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary 15th edition 1997 |website=Yek.me.uk |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929043355/http://www.yek.me.uk/reviewepd.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> a "ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term"<ref>{{cite web |author=Jack Windsor Lewis |url=http://www.yek.me.uk/reviewlpd.html |title=Ovvissly not one of us – Review of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary |website=Yek.me.uk |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=24 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824050458/http://www.yek.me.uk/reviewlpd.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and noted that American scholars find the term "quite curious".<ref name=jwl>{{cite web |author=Jack Windsor Lewis |url=http://www.yek.me.uk/brndaccents.html |title=British non-dialectal accents |website=Yek.me.uk |date=19 February 1972 |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=1 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701072108/http://www.yek.me.uk/brndaccents.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He used the term "General British" (to parallel "[[General American]]") in his 1970s publication of ''A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of American and British English''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Windsor Lewis |first1=Jack |title=A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English |date=1972 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=0-19-431123-6}}</ref> and in subsequent publications.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jack Windsor |last=Lewis |url=http://www.yek.me.uk/cpdrevieweltj.html |title=Review of CPD in ELTJ |website=Yek.me.uk |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929043538/http://www.yek.me.uk/cpdrevieweltj.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name "General British" is adopted in the latest revision of Gimson's ''Pronunciation of English''.{{sfnp|Cruttenden|2014|pp=80–82}} Beverley Collins and Inger Mees use the term "Non-Regional Pronunciation" for what is often otherwise called RP, and reserve the term "Received Pronunciation" for the "upper-class speech of the twentieth century".{{sfnp|Collins|Mees|2003|pp=3–4}} Received Pronunciation has sometimes been called "Oxford English", as it used to be the accent of most members of the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name='Robinson'/> The ''Handbook of the International Phonetic Association'' uses the name "Standard Southern British". Page 4 reads:

{{Blockquote|text=Standard Southern British (where 'Standard' should not be taken as implying a value judgment of 'correctness') is the modern equivalent of what has been called 'Received Pronunciation' ('RP'). It is an accent of the south east of England which operates as a prestige norm there and (to varying degrees) in other parts of the British Isles and beyond.{{sfnp|International Phonetic Association|1999|p=4}}
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