process of language change and dialect variations. Ch. Barber
states: «One way in which the English language has been chang
ing in recent years is the relationship between the different kinds
of English spoken in England, and in people's attitudes to these
different varieties of the language»1. Other ways of changing RP
may be explained by the influence of American English pronun
ciation types heard in the cinema, on the wireless and television
and on records of popular singers etc. A.C. Gimson also pointed
out the influence of the London dialect to RP such as the pronun
ciations of /о:/ instead of /о:/, /л:/ instead of /з:/, monophthongiza-
tion of /ei/ as /e:/ in words like
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