To: C19fan
So Brits are going to start talking like New Yorkers? Irish immigrants couldn’t pronounce the ‘th’ which is why New Yorkers used to say ‘turty-turd-and-turd” rather than thirty third and third. But that changed over the years and it’s rare to hear that accent anymore.
15 posted on
09/30/2016 9:56:27 AM PDT by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
To: miss marmelstein
Yeah I remember dat! Boston dey're sounds like dat too!
The Bah is not fah from Bostahn Hahbah
Stick your kahkeys in yo kahkis. You wont lose them. Top o dah day!
30 posted on
09/30/2016 10:02:27 AM PDT by
mainestategop
(DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
To: miss marmelstein
Irish immigrants couldnt pronounce the th which is why New Yorkers used to say turty-turd-and-turd rather than thirty third and third. In Ireland they still pronounce 'thousand' as 'tousand'.
52 posted on
09/30/2016 10:16:42 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
To: miss marmelstein
So Brits are going to start talking like New Yorkers? Irish immigrants couldnt pronounce the th which is why New Yorkers used to say turty-turd-and-turd rather than thirty third and third. But that changed over the years and its rare to hear that accent anymore.Actually, its: "toidy-toid and toid." As in:
Toidy doity poiple boids
sittin' a coib, choipin' and boipin' and eatin' woims
Along came Hoibie and his goil Goitie, da goil wit da golden coils.
When dey saw da toidy doity poiple boids
sittin' da coib, choipin' abd boipin' and eatin' woims,
Dey was patoibed.
77 posted on
09/30/2016 11:32:01 AM PDT by
Maceman
(Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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