Is there a New Jersey accent or is it a New York accent?

[Anonymous]

Also, a Brooklyn accent differed from a Queens accent. The best way to describe a north Jersey accent is sewage running over gravel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Corey Booker has a great NJ accent.
He is from Newark/Essex County which is close to NYC but you will note that he does NOT have a NY accent.

Also, Chris Christie has a solid NJ accent, also from Essex County.

These are perfect examples.

I’m with you on Christie but I don’t notice it on Booker so much.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in central NJ and can tell you within 10 miles or so if someone grew up near me. It's a very distinctive place on the NY-Philly-Maryland spectrum. North and South Jersey are different yet again from that. You just have to know how to hear it.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Corey Booker has a great NJ accent.
He is from Newark/Essex County which is close to NYC but you will note that he does NOT have a NY accent.

Also, Chris Christie has a solid NJ accent, also from Essex County.

I agree with this as well as the poster who mentioned HOW people from Jersey (really North Jersey) talk. It's the rate of speed, as well as the volume. I grew up in Union County as did my husband. We speak really fast and when we are with our siblings/cousins it gets LOUD.[/quote]

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We think southerners are SLOW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in central NJ and can tell you within 10 miles or so if someone grew up near me. It's a very distinctive place on the NY-Philly-Maryland spectrum. North and South Jersey are different yet again from that. You just have to know how to hear it.

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I grew up in central NJ and I would told you that we had no discernible accent. Then I returned for my 30th reunion and was absolutely blown away by the accents of my classmates who stayed in our town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in central NJ and can tell you within 10 miles or so if someone grew up near me. It's a very distinctive place on the NY-Philly-Maryland spectrum. North and South Jersey are different yet again from that. You just have to know how to hear it.

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I grew up in central NJ and I would told you that we had no discernible accent. Then I returned for my 30th reunion and was absolutely blown away by the accents of my classmates who stayed in our town.

which central jersey town?

[Anonymous]

There’s definitely a north Jersey accent that is comparable to Long Island accents. And Jewish people from that area have a certain cadence and use certain words.

[Anonymous]

My DH has lived in the DMV for 30 years but when he talks to his siblings (who also live in the DMV) they all slip back to North Jersey accents. It's very distinctive.