Notable Speakers
John Wells has identified the following people as RP speakers:
- David Cameron, Prime Minister
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Attenborough, broadcaster and naturalist
- Rupert Everett, actor
- Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or speakers:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)