Received Pronunciation. Received Pronunciation (a term by 19th Century linguist A.J. Ellis) is the probably the closest the United Kingdom has ever had to a âstandard accent.â Although originally related to the upper-classes in London and other areas of Southeast England, it is largely non-regional.
Vanderbilt, Michigan. Vanderbilt is a village in Otsego County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 562 at the 2010 census.
Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university founded in 1873 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South. Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War.