Posted on 12/02/2017 9:17:33 AM PST by gaggs
Have you ever wondered if the Founding Fathers spoke with a British accent? I know I have. Well here is the answer.
The typical English accent didn’t develop until after the Revolutionary War, so Americans actually speak proper English. Here comes the science.
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Sorry pal but we DON”T have accents in Jersey. Don’t know what you’re talking about. You want accent? Try NYC.
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Oh, man. It was the best. She disappeared from a beach in Santa Monica and went off on a tryst with her radio engineer.
After a while, she came walking out of the Mexico desert wearing high heels, unsunburned, and said she had escaped captivity by a coupled name Rose and Steve.
I’d generalize the ugly accent to what the locals all seem to refer to as “the Tri-State Area” that you always hear about in those wildly tacky and loud, heavily promotional tv commercials for furniture stores, electronics, used cars and the like, that outsiders find so funny. It’s the only accent I’ve encountered, wherein speakers seem to be yelling no matter what they say or in what sort of social setting. It really is bad.
I was in Norway at a language school and we went on a hike. Came across an older guy (72 years old) that lived up in the high valley we were in. The Norwegian instructors could only understand about 1/5 of what he said. (This was 40 years ago).
They said each valley had almost it’s own language as there wasn’t much travel between them. Of course that is going away now, but this older guy (would have been born in 1905 or so) was part of that history growing up.
I spent some time in the mountains of North Carolina - and some of the folks there I could only understand maybe 70% of what they said!
The Patton family was up in San Gabriel/San Marino, east of Pasadena. LA County. Orange County was spun off of LA County after Patton was born, but all the same the Patton homestead remains in LA.
Patton’s mother was from a very prominent Los Angeles family. Her mother was a Yorba. Her father was the 2nd mayor of Los Angeles, and Mount Wilson is named for him.
“First, there is *no* such thing as a “southern” accent.”
You likely won’t convince those of us with Southern roots. There’s a variety of Southern accents, a good deal more than two.
I think that’s what the poster meant. There is no one “Southern accent.”
I love Southern accents-———I’m from Boston and we don’t have an accent.
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If I recall that biography correctly, Patton‘s father at one time was in a group owned Catalina Island, before it was sold to Wrigley.
Back in the sixties, I loved calling our Atlanta branch from Dallas. The long distance operators in Atlanta talked like they were breathing honey. It was captivating. Southern Bell/Belle, indeed.
I’m from Boston and we don’t have an accent.
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I’m from Boston and we don’t have an accent.
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My mother-in-law was from Newton, Mass. She lived in Colorado for over 40 years and still had her accent.
I the ‘’Tri-State Area’’ if you be heard you’ve got to be fast. We’re all hustle and bustle here. NYC has the .... well certainly the most notable accents. And then there are the idioms. Like, “Hey, youse want dis or what?’’ And , I will admit, the rather peculiar jersey idiom, meant as to deflate a persons ego or self importance , “He thinks who he is’’.
Patton grew up on the knee of John S Mosby of CSA cavalry fame
Unusual factoid
OLs post is thoughtful
The south has many distinctive accents for a variety of reasons borne of cultural and demographic origins from Jamestown on
The common thread is they are mostly UK in genesis
Man I could wax on about 25-30 micro accents
The primary dividers are cotton states or lowlands versus mid south south or highlands
And the difference tween a country accent which might even be southern Illinois and a Southern accent
The latter division to me is distinctive
Nor pimples as I recall
I lived in Newton for 40 years———————still had the accent.:-)
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