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.
(Excerpt) Read more at commonsenseevaluation.com ...
As the song goes: “where I come from, we like our women to sing soprano”.
“I don’t think that neither Newton nor Dorchester qualify as North Shore.”
I don’t think anyone implied that they were North Shore,and I’m sure that I didn’t.
That said,it’s BRUTAL how some actors try,and fail, for the Boston accent. I think you mean Christian Bale for the Merrimac Valley accent-——and that was a great movie.
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Yes, I stand duly corrected on all accounts. You are correct, it was Christian Bale. If you know the Merrimack Valley accent (I am sure you must have heard it by now) and you saw the movie, you know what I’m talking about. He had guttural grunts and obscure vocalisms down pat. I think the Merrimack Valley accent is the granddaddy of all “Boston” accents. My own children, who you’d think would pick up my accent ......... didn’t. All winter, every winter I would instruct them to put on their “pahkas”. They would ask me where I got my accent and why I talked the way I did. I couldn’t answer that until late in life I realized I spoke a very unique Merrimack Valley accent. I raised my kids on the North Shore, but one town away from the Valley.
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“All winter, every winter I would instruct them to put on their “pahkas”.
That gave me the best laugh.
I was raised in Boston and was not aware of my accent until I heard a recording of myself talking some years ago.
I was stunned at how very broad my accent was. Pretty funny !!!
I love the state and it’s four seasons——in spite of all the liberals,including a couple of my kids and grandkids.
Go Pats! Go Bruins!:-)
(We are a great sports state.
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Yes, we are on a level of sports sophistication that is so far advanced beyond any other city it is laughable. I have reduced myself to only following the Flying Elvis’s though. When Brady is done, so am I. Sports have just about evolved to the endgame around here. We are in our own league. We have been at it so long. I can remember my Uncle taking me to the Boston Patriots practices at Philips Academy in Andover. They just wore pedestrian sweats and we mingled with them on the sidelines. I recall a twi-night double-header at Fenway. The starters for the two games were Dick Raddatz and Dave Morehead. One of the first expressions I learned as a youngster, was, “the Sox are in the basement”. I would think to myself, “what on earth are they talking about, the sox are in the sox drawer!”
Tripping on Dave Gardner and poor folks: He once remarked that, “The government ought to tax poor folks, give them incentive to become something.”
“PATTON, George Smith (1856-1927), lawyer and father to the famous U. S. Army General, who was a friend of the Bannings and brother-in-law to Hancock Banning. Patton owned a summer cottage in Avalon at 220 Sumner Avenue. On May 31, 1901, Patton bought into both the Wilmington Transportation Company and Santa Catalina Island Company with William, Joseph, and Hancock Banning, becoming 1/7th shareholder. Patton served on the board of the Santa Catalina Island Company for 18 years.”
http://www.islapedia.com/index.php?title=PATTON,_George_Smith
I enlisted in the Navy from Texas and was stationed in Virginia with a whole bunch of Yankees, from New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. As you can imagine, I picked up pretty heavily on their accents.
But not enough, apparently. When I’d go home on leave, folks would tell me I talked like a Yankee but when I went up north, they’d say, “You’re from the south aren’t you?”
You doubtless remember Redd Foxx, who described how poor they were. He wore his tennis shoes out plumb up to the ankle.; They were like canvas spats. And the Thanksgivings with Grandma standing at the stove in case anything came. Or when Ma said to Pa, “Pa, the garbage man’s here.” Pa’d say, “Good, tell him to LEAVE two cans.”
One of my favorite Brother Dave responses to:
“Your’re a Southerner, you gotta be a Democrat.”
—Nah, man, I learned how to read.
Heh.
How about ...
“James Lewis! Get away from that wheelbarrow!
You know you doesn’t know nothin’ ‘bout machinery!”
I actually saw one of Brother Dave’s live performances back in the day. It was at a civic auditorium in East Texas.
He did some material from his albums and played the drums, singing “White Silver Sands”. Too bad he couldn’t stay off the drugs and the booze.
Probably around that same time, I saw him live in Norfolk.
He looked lake a banty rooster up on stage. Today, his more colorful routines would have rioters at every performance.
Rejoice, dear hearts, we have the next best thing in the White House.
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