Thank you! That’s true about N.O and N.Y. When I went to Oklahoma once to visit a friend who worked for the FAA she called her work buddies over to hear me talk!( And I, by no means, sound like the natives with real ‘accents’. They argued that I was from N.Y., not N.O. They even tried to guess which neighborhood and which part! It cracked me up. As well traveled as they were they were surprised.
They really expected a southern ‘drawl’, like Georgia, I suppose.Nope- no one talks like that in N.O.
It’s the ‘Yat Speak’ here that is so much like Brooklyn-ese, maybe its a port thing? I don’t know, but the accent is celebrated here!
“ Dawlin, gimme a po-boy sammich and dress it with mynez. I gotta make my groceries, hawt, ersters are on sale!”
My neighbor is originally from NYC, and even though she spent many years in NH she still has what I would fondly call a typical Jewish NY accent/manner of expression. I lived for several years in NY and picked up a bit of an accent, much has faded from living in the South for a long time though. I love talking to my neighbor, it’s such a pleasure to my ears to hear a NY accent and not a southern one for a change lol.