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B.B.C|biːbiːˈsiː|
Initial letters of British Broadcasting Corporation, a public corporation orig. having the monopoly of broadcasting in Gt. Britain, financed by a grant-in-aid from Parliament; established 1927 by royal charter to carry on work previously performed by the British Broadcasting Company; hence B.B.C. English, standard English as maintained by B.B.C. announcers; so B.B.C. pronunciation, etc.
1923Radio Times 28 Sept. 12/1 It seems to me that the B.B.C. are mainly catering for the ‘listeners’ who own expensive sets. 1925Punch 22 Apr. 440/1 The daily wireless programme of the B.B.C. 1926Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 454/2 The ‘B.B.C.’ is constituted as a limited company, the share⁓holders being wireless manufacturers and traders. 1928Times 13 Jan. 8/5 B.B.C. English. Mr. Lawrence omits from his list of solecisms in pronunciation perpetrated by the B.B.C.'s ‘Advisory Committee on Spoken English’ the crowning horror. 1932Listener 13 Jan. 45/1 Critics who enjoy making fun of what they are pleased to call ‘B.B.C. English’ might with profit pay occasional visits to the other side of the Atlantic, in order to hear examples of our language as broadcast where there are no official ‘recommendations to announcers’. 1936W. Holtby South Riding i. 18 She talked B.B.C. English to her employer..and Yorkshire dialect to old milkmen. 1938P. T. Jones Welsh Border Country viii. 95 The educated and older local (as opposed to the ‘board-school’ and B.B.C.) pronunciation of the town's name is Shrozebury, not Shroozbury. 1944Penguin New Writing XXII. 47 Her accent was impeccably B.B.C. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 338 B.B.C. officials—programme planners, features-producers, poetry readers. |