now agent D how would you say that and receive pronunciation I would say boat did he just say
both no no I said I I heard but I did not say vote I said bought hello hello hello everybody my name
is Steve Ford did you enjoy that first part of the lesson if you did you're going to love the
rest of this lesson so let's go so secret agents were on a secret mission to go to the castle of Dr
Evil and I have my secret agent D with me in the conference today secret agent do you are you there
yes Steve I'm here now as I understand secret agent do you have a standard RP received
pronunciation accent is that correct yes that's correct great so agent D for our mission here I
also have special Agent B Betty and you're going to need to say that into your watch as a code word
if you are surrounded by three enemy agents that will tell us and tell Betty that you are in code
yellow that means that you're in some danger so how would you pronounce that agent D can you say
that for us so we can get a handle on that yes I would say Betty you may body um agent D is
there somebody else inside the conference that I don't know about yes that would be agent Bugsy
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I believe you what did you say again I said Betty uh-huh yeah it just sounds like mine Bang
oh agent T who invited you into the conference well you did well I didn't think he would come
yeah so Agent B has a cockney accent and agent T has a more Southern American accent so we'll just
run through those all again so standard American Betty David no I said David not Bugsy I mean agent
D Agent B yeah hey David could you say it again Betsy okay so David you're really with that RP
pronunciation pronouncing all of the t's that's great and agent Bugsy bye I said Agent B not agent
T that a great so there's no T there and how did you say it again text so it sounds like agent T
and D are long-lost cousins what a coincidence so that's the first word agents that you want to know
in case of an emergency on our mission and the second one is b-o-u-g-h-t now this is if you are
in danger this is a Code Orange you're surrounded by 10 enemy spies and you want to say but that
standard American you want to say that into your watch so that you can let Betty know now agent D
how would you say that and receive pronunciation I would say boat did he just say both
no I said I I heard both I did not say boat I said bought okay well agent T it's it's his way
of pronouncing it it's a different way he's not around from these parts is he and what about Agent
B how would you say that well no tea and new agent tea wow okay so that has a different vowel sound
but you're both not pronouncing T and I would say bot bot and the last one is butter butter now you
can see that the way I'm pronouncing it with the standard American accent I'm really pronouncing
that with a relaxed T flap t a d and uh how would you say it's agent deep I would say butter great
so receive pronunciation pronouncing that t and the r is different as well and what about you uh
agent T Bar I say bar okay so no teas for agent T Bar and for Agent B what I want you to do to
decide who is going to be first to do the mission at Dr Evil's Castle tomorrow is by seeing who can
say this sentence the fastest and it is Betty bot a bit of butter now of course us um North
Americans we would say Betty bought a bit of butter so agent D we'd like to hear the received
pronunciation first could you say that for us we're going to clock that see how fast it takes
Betty bolts a bit of butter okay that's clocked in let's compare that to Agent B that he bought a bit
of butter okay leaving off the teas there Agent B was a little faster with the Cockney accent and
what about agent tea okay getting faster and I'm gonna try it myself Betty bought a bit of butter
well I clocked in the fastest that means that I'm taking on the mission tomorrow at Dr Evil's
Castle wish me luck everybody and I hope that you enjoyed this quick lesson we've got some more
secrets about the differences between American and British English so you stay tuned and bye for now