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 hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Today, Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U.S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate and professional schools.