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There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronun-ciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography __1
is learnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds __2
like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when we __3
firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, __4
whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We __5
begin the "natural" learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and __6
practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every __7
day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult English spelling.
This is "natural", therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our im- __8
mediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates a means of holding a community and to give a sense of "belonging". We learn quite early to recognize a __9
"stranger", someone who speaks with an accent of a different community—perhaps only a few miles far. __10
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