"Posh" American accent?

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Anonymous wrote:Do American English speakers have a "posh" accent of sorts? If so what does it sound like? John Kerry?

John Kerry sounds like an arrogant ass. And not just because he's John Kerry! He'd somehow manage to sound like a conceited prick even if he was panhandling for change.

John Kerry and Al Gore. They coukd be reading bedtime stories and they would sound that way.

John Kerry looks like he might be nice though. Al Gore looks just the way he sounds.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a podcast on this. i think it's from stuff you should know or stuff you missed in history class. In short the answer is no. There may have been at one time...the way people talked in movies in the 30-40s but it's essentially died out.

I notice this in classic movies.

The actors talk so much more classy + elegant than they do in today's movies.

There is a specific name for this But I am too lazy to look it up. It was essentially lost by the early 70s but it was originated in the Northeast. FDR. JFK and a predominance of radio broadcasters, among others used it. "Been" is "bean" not "bin" etc.

Here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

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Someone in another thread had a word for it. They used it for the way Bunny (from SATC, Charlotte's ex-husband's mother) spoke.

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I a lot and Anne Hathaway are two young people who have this accent. There are more but these came to mind. It's a manhttan born and raised, private school and possibly diction/elocution lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.

You do know that the Kennedys are not WASPs? And have Boston accents (described as "hooligan" by another pp.)

Kennedys were a bad example.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Kennedys were WASPS?

let's be friends.

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Anonymous wrote:I a lot and Anne Hathaway are two young people who have this accent. There are more but these came to mind. It's a manhttan born and raised, private school and possibly diction/elocution lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in another thread had a word for it. They used it for the way Bunny (from SATC, Charlotte's ex-husband's mother) spoke.

YES!!! That is it.

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They Frasier accent!

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.

Kennedys are not WASPs

Yes, but they spoke like WASPs and they lived in that world.

They did not live in that world. They lived in the world of elite Catholics. The two were separate.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.

Kennedys are not WASPs

Yes, but they spoke like WASPs and they lived in that world.

They did not live in that world. They lived in the world of elite Catholics. The two were separate.

Exactly. Read Stephen Birmingham's Lace Curtain. They didn't event have the WASP-y accent; that's Larchmont Lockjaw, more similar to Jackie's accent.

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Mid-Atlantic English or Harvard Lockjaw (aka Yale Lockjaw).

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Anonymous wrote:My DD has one but she thinks it's a remnant of a speech impediment. She gets asked constantly where she is from. Her accent is so beautiful. Most people guess someplace in Europe. Lol

Does she, now?

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Posh is not American, OP.

Here you have the new nouveau riche and the slightly older set nouveau riche who think they're old money. Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Kennedys were WASPS?

Nope! They were not.

The P in WASP stands for Protestant. The Kennedy family was Catholic and lace curtain Irish.