How to sound posh – Part two

in Upper upping the jaw barely moves as
expressed in these vowel sounds for
example the vowel o in normal RP would
sound like Oh
but in upper up it’s reduced to an
almost earth sound for example go
becomes guerre no no show
sure don’t don’t
if you’re interested in the phonetics
this sound o becomes this sound earth
almost other sounds which change are the
are sound to a slight F sound for
example cat kit Harry Harry Caray okay
if a word ends in an e sound in r / RP
it’s reduced to a weaker it sound for
example pretty bit a regular RP party
party really very very very which brings
us to our next point the R sound in
words when the are separates two vowel
sounds in normal RP we would pronounce
it normally for example very but it
upper RP very this is what’s called an
alveolar tap that’s when the tongue very
lightly taps the front roof of your
mouth to create that are sound again
very very hora hora
mirror mirror in words with three vowel
sounds together they’re called trip
thongs in words like power / ah ooh ah
the three vowel sounds are smooth to an
almost singular vowel sound in normal RP
power in Upper RP par so powerful
powerful
shower Shah the trip wrong iron are are
like fire sound like this far higher ha
acquire a choir quiet quiet
Empire and bomb another trip phone air
like a II such as in lair lair
mayonnaise manners player Claire also in
Upper RP you’d be expected to include
certain words into your vocabulary for
example these jolly which essentially
means very chap which means man
for example jog or dare chaps Lou a
polite way of saying toilet I’m afraid I
really must relieve myself is there a
loo anywhere here use of the indefinite
article one instead of the more direct
you he or she is definitely advised in
upper RP for example if one were to look
in a mirror one would see that one is in
fact very ugly hi and finally when
meeting someone for the first time one
should extend a hand and a hearty how do
you do
would you like a test would you like to
see how plus you are how would you as a
posh person with upper RP say these
sentences
flaw par I’m a pretty kitty there’s a
cat in the mirror one must not hate the
plow one must instead hate to the game
the British Empire will once again
acquire the United States jolly nice
Manet’s old chap oh the horror
well thank you for watching I’m afraid
we’ve run out of time for today and
you’ve probably got to go back to your
tie have yes big of a hurry mascara so
what happens now
I’m just tell them to subscribe and you
can go subscribe thank you bye bye
we don’t use the ages get rid of them
boo f else for example it sounds like
the middle of uh-oh that up is stacking
approach it’s called block