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I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there. There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolli
by cecida 3y ago
I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.
There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.
The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.
- aristus 3y agoArchie Bunker and Thurston Howell. You don't encounter them as much today in the wild, possibly because of how they were caricatured on TV.
- yuppie_scum 3y agoI think you’re much more likely to hear a foreign accent than a waspy one these days. Charles Emerson Winchester III isn’t walking thru that door.
- schwartzworld 3y agoThat's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.
- imbnwa 3y agoWhere does Bill Burr fit in there
- dogmatism 3y agoKennedy more had the wasp-ish accent. The other you could hear from some priests But these days, it's all drowned out by Matt Damon and Ben Afleck's version. I feel like Bostonians talk like caricatures of themselves