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 Mansion National Historic Site. The Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a historic house museum in Hyde Park, New York. It became a National Historic Landmark and started operation under the National Park Service in 1940. The mansion, known as Hyde Park, was the Gilded Age home of Frederick William Vanderbilt and his family from 1895 to 1938. The 54-room Vanderbilt mansion was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. Designed and built between 1896 and 1899, the house is an example of the Beaux-Arts arc