Here are a couple of examples of Received Pronunciation. Both from the same era, the early 1900s: the writers Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Virginia

Being short of breath is extremely distressing.  Sometimes the coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath associated with asthma is due to irritable larynx syndrome and

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I’d been asked by an interpreter recently “How do I check if my voice is alright”.  I thought it was a trick question – we’d

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I like the female voice on Google Voice UK – it’s a mummy voice for the authority and has a smile in it which makes