B.B.C.n.

/biːbiːˈsiː/

Etymology: < the initial letters of British Broadcasting Corporation.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, a public corporation originally having the monopoly of broadcasting in Great 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting company

B.B.C.1923

British Broadcasting Corporation1926

C.B.S.1930

ABC1931

Portland Place1937

Independent Broadcasting Authority1954

ORTF1964

PBS1969

I.B.A.1971

LBC1973

1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 12/1 It seems to me that the B.B.C. are mainly catering for the ‘listeners’ who own expensive sets.

1925 Punch 22 Apr. 440/1 The daily wireless programme of the B.B.C.

1926 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 454/2 The ‘B.B.C.’ is constituted as a limited company, the share~holders being wireless manufacturers and traders.

1944 H. Acton in Penguin New Writing 22 47 Her accent was impeccably B.B.C.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 338 B.B.C. officials—programme planners, features-producers, poetry readers.

Compounds

B.B.C. English n. standard English as maintained by B.B.C. announcers; so B.B.C. pronunciation, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard

King's English1553

king's languagea1566

Queen's English1592

received pronunciation?1710

Standard English1806

Southern English1860

World English1888

RP1889

Modified Standard English1913

Received Standard1913

B.B.C. English1928

Oldspeak1949

1928 Times 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.

1932 Listener 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’.

a1935 W. Holtby South Riding (1936) i. i. 18 She talked B.B.C. English to her employer..and Yorkshire dialect to old milkmen.

1938 P. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bbc
释义	B.B.C.n. /biːbiːˈsiː/ Etymology: < the initial letters of British Broadcasting Corporation. The British Broadcasting Corporation, a public corporation originally having the monopoly of broadcasting in Great 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting company B.B.C.1923 British Broadcasting Corporation1926 C.B.S.1930 ABC1931 Portland Place1937 Independent Broadcasting Authority1954 ORTF1964 PBS1969 I.B.A.1971 LBC1973 1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 12/1 It seems to me that the B.B.C. are mainly catering for the ‘listeners’ who own expensive sets. 1925 Punch 22 Apr. 440/1 The daily wireless programme of the B.B.C. 1926 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 454/2 The ‘B.B.C.’ is constituted as a limited company, the share~holders being wireless manufacturers and traders. 1944 H. Acton in Penguin New Writing 22 47 Her accent was impeccably B.B.C. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 338 B.B.C. officials—programme planners, features-producers, poetry readers. Compounds B.B.C. English n. standard English as maintained by B.B.C. announcers; so B.B.C. pronunciation, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard King's English1553 king's languagea1566 Queen's English1592 received pronunciation?1710 Standard English1806 Southern English1860 World English1888 RP1889 Modified Standard English1913 Received Standard1913 B.B.C. English1928 Oldspeak1949 1928 Times 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. 1932 Listener 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’. a1935 W. Holtby South Riding (1936) i. i. 18 She talked B.B.C. English to her employer..and Yorkshire dialect to old milkmen. 1938 P. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas B.B.C. B.B.C. n. (see as separate entry). extracted from Bn. < n.1923 as lemmas
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B.B.C.n.

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