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The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis frequently criticised the name "Received Pronunciation" in his blog: he has called it "invidious", a "ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term" and noted that American scholars find the term "quite curious". The term The Queen's English has also been used by some writers, though the term is more appropriately used to cover grammar as well as pronunciation. Other writers have also used the name "BBC Pronunciation". 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. Some linguists have used the term "RP" while expressing reservations about its suitability.

The word 'received' conveys its original meaning of 'accepted' or 'approved', as in ' received wisdom'." Alternative names Īccording to Fowler's Modern English Usage (1965), "the correct term is 'the Received Pronunciation'. is a variable quantity differing from individual to individual, although all its varieties are 'received', understood and mainly unnoticed". The early phonetician Alexander John Ellis used both terms interchangeably, but with a much broader definition than Jones's, saying, "There is no such thing as a uniform educated pron. A similar term, received standard, was coined by Henry C. Du Ponceau in 1818 and the Oxford English Dictionary cites quotations back to about 1710. In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917) he named the accent " Public School Pronunciation", but for the second edition in 1926 he wrote: "In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation, for want of a better term." However, the term had been used much earlier by P. The introduction of the term Received Pronunciation is usually credited to the British phonetician Daniel Jones. By the end of the 15th century, "Standard English" was established in the City of London, though it did not begin to resemble RP until the late 19th century. RP has most in common with the dialects of South East Midlands, namely London, Oxford and Cambridge.