Funny how being stationed in Texas and North Dakota for several years removes vestige of “Lawn guylant” accent formed growing up. Only slips out a when I order a cawwfee
I spent some formative years in South Texas and was still occasionally saying “aaahrn” and “aaahl” (iron and oil) a decade later.
Yeah. I grew up in da Bronx till age 15 then lawn guy land from there. My father’s mother and her other sons apart from my father were all full of ‘Terlit and earl burner’. (Never Earl boiner. That would be Brooklyn. There is a difference.)
My cousins spoke like that too like it was a badge of honor. My father was edumacated by my mother who mostly spoke properly. I believe she told my father to stop talking like a gavone (gavone or more correctly caffone is Italian slang for a low born jerk). Yes along with Bronxeeze we had NY Italian slang interspersed.