[cynwoody]

I thought it was a NJ (southern Jersey/Philly) accent the first time I heard it.

That would be Representative Fwank, not Governor Palin.

[Perdogg]

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[Clemenza]

Actually, Bawney Fwank has a North Jersey accent that, like so many folks from Hudson County (Bawney is from Bayonne), has a bit of the old New York influence. Lisp aside, Barney probably says "Nork" for Newark (like my father) and said "youse" before he went to college.

South Jersey and metro Philly in general speak in the generic mid-Atlantic accent that you hear from New Brunswick, NJ to Baltimore, MD. My Philly-area cousins have a drink of "werter" after having ice cream with "jimmies" on top. They also "ewpen" the "drew-wer" for their socks, just as their cousin Clemenza opens the "draw" to get his socks.