Upper-Class/Posh Formal Received Pronunciation (Conspicuous General British English) well-educated
How do you do, eveyone!
There are more formal pronunciations of the Received Pronunciation chiefly the Upper-Class version. I have known the following are well-educated/upper-class/posh pronunciation.
examples:
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data: DAHR-tuh instead of DAY-tuh (I wonder how come it is UK formal? see
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data)
apparatus: ae-puh-RAHR-tihs
mass (as in the Catholic mass): MAHRS
scone: rhymes with "loan" rather than gone (also in General USA)
renaissance: ri-NAY-SÃS rather than ri-NAY-since since it is a French loanword. Where ÃH is the nasal vowel. (see
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/renaissance)
waistcoat: rhymes with west kit
golf: the l is silent
**off: it pronounces as ORF
**often: rhymes with orphan
**lost: likewise with saying off and often which the "o" is pronounced as in 'thought'
(**see Her Majesty the Queen's 'The Christmas Broadcast 1957')
also there is hw pronunciation for what, when, and which!
see comment to read part 2 of my question.