There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling. (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt 'naturally' and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 【B1】______ deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what 【B2】______ our speech sounds like when we speak out, and it often 【B3】______ comes as a shock when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. 【B4】______ It is not a voice we recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We begin the 'natural' 【B5】______ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 【B6】______ practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult 【B7】______ English spelling. This is 'natural', therefore, that our speech-sounds 【B8】______ should be those of our immediate circle;after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community and 【B9】______ giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a 'stranger', someone who speaks with an accent of a different community — perhaps only a few miles far. 【B10】______ 【B1】