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To: SMGFan

I still maintain that the most beautiful American accent of all is the old-time, now extinct, New England Yankee accent as epitomized by Calvin Coolidge, Farmer Smurf, and Titus Moody. I’m not talking about urban Boston or Harvard brahmin here.


117 posted on 06/05/2013 5:12:22 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"I still maintain that the most beautiful American accent of all is the old-time, now extinct, New England Yankee accent"

For my money, it's a classic Richmond accent, the way Shelby Foote spoke it in Ken Burn's "The Civil War".

219 posted on 06/06/2013 3:40:01 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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