\paperw3735 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ri45\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 The English spoken by British people tends to differ in accent and
pronunciation according to the geographical region of provenance.Television and radio have inevitably contributed to the evolution of a standard spoken English that is largely free of regional inflections. This is usually referred to as æBBC EnglishÆ.
However, there is also another form of spoken English that reveals no geographical origins but rather a social and class category. Sometimes called æQueenÆs EnglishÆ or æOxford EnglishÆ, this still tends to be the way of speaking for those who attended
private schools. This æpublic-school accentÆ essentially denotes membership of the upper-middle classes, an immediately recognisable Θlite whose social fortress has been considerably dismantled in recent years as the class-structures of British society
