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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • That was a real accent, known as Received Pronunciation, and used by BBC presenters and old boys everywhere until it fell out of favour in the sixties and seventies as an object of ridicule. Actual posh people now don’t like to stand out like that and sound more-or-less the same as lower middle class.