most of us have an image of such a normal or standard English in pronunciation, and very commonly in Great Britain this is Received Pronunciation, often associated with the public schools, oxford, and the BBC. Indeed, a pronunciation within this range has great prestige throughout the world, and for English taught as a foreign language it is more usually the ideal than any other pronunciation. at the same time, is must be remembered that, so far as the English-speaking countries are concerned, this received pronunciation approaches the status of a standard almost only England: Educated scots, Irishmen, Americans, Australians, and others have their own, different images of a standard form of English. Even in England it's difficult to speak oaf standard in pronunciation. for one thing , pronunciation is infinitely variable, so that even given the will to adopt a single pronunciation, it would be difficult to achieve. The word dance maybe pronounced in a dozen ways even by people who do not think of themselves as dialect speakers: