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> In dissecting the exaggerated New York accents of Bugs Bunny When I was a little kid in the 60s, I remember someone interviewing Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs).
by jpmattia 6y ago
> In dissecting the exaggerated New York accents of Bugs Bunny
When I was a little kid in the 60s, I remember someone interviewing Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs). He couldn’t decide whether a Bronx or Brooklyn accent sounded tougher, so he chose elements of both for Bugs’ voice.
Having grown up in CT, it was the first time I realized there were different regional accents even among the different NYC boroughs.
- woodruffw 6y agoNot only between the boroughs, but in neighborhoods within them: the part of Manhattan that my family is from pronounces “law” as “loar,” versus “looah” in the main Manhattan dialect. My friends from Brooklyn and Queens say “lah.”
- stevekemp 6y agoThe UK, famously, has this too. There are numerous accents present which have very small and clear boundaries. You can hear different accents after walking only a mile or two away to the next village, or the other half of a city. Oddly fascinating, and something I really miss now I've moved to a different country - a country which to my ears sounds very much like there are only a couple of accents.
- michaelcampbell 6y agoThis video is one of my favorites for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk A couple Brits I work with say it's pretty good.