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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)
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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)
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To: miss marmelstein
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.

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.)
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To: miss marmelstein
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.

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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