"Posh" American accent?

[Anonymous]

John Kerry sounds arrogant when he speaks.

[Anonymous]

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

Locust Valley Lockjaw

I know tons of Northeastern born and bred boarding school alums and don't know any under age 70 who speak with the Hepburn/FDR/Kerry accent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Locust Valley Lockjaw

I know tons of Northeastern born and bred boarding school alums and don't know any under age 70 who speak with the Hepburn/FDR/Kerry accent

Thank you. Yes, its the Locust Valley Lockjaw[b] and a very upper crust accent it is. If you have upper class family from the NE you will know it. It has mostly disappeared as it sounds affected in today's world but in the world my grandparents inhabited it very much identified the upper class.

And, PPs are correct, the Kennedys were considered very low class back in that day and age. The patriarch, Joe, was a bootlegger, a criminal. He was absolutely lower class, an immigrant Irish upstart. Perfect example of an American family that achieved and climbed significantly. Sadly, they seem to be unable to avoid the stereotypical Irish maladies of addiction and excess even in the newest generations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Locust Valley Lockjaw

I know tons of Northeastern born and bred boarding school alums and don't know any under age 70 who speak with the Hepburn/FDR/Kerry accent

Locust Valley is on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget Miss Jane Hathaway, one of my all-time favorite television characters.

[Anonymous]

Have you people never heard of the Boston Brahmin accent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ivanka Trump**

Yoga instructor voice with a 5th grade vocabulary who using the same 6 descriptors over and over is "posh"? lol

There's a reason she had to TRANSFER into Wharton even though her dad is a billionaire alum. Vapid plastic bimbo.

[Anonymous]

Locust Valley Lockjaw (Long Island)
Larchmont Lockjaw (Westchester)
Basically local terms for mid-Atlantic speech. As in, midway btw US and UK and not as in this part of the country. The accent was affected and taught but died out. Listen to John Cheever reading The Swimmer on Youtube or FDR, William F Buckley or, I suppose, Frasier Crane.

For my money I think the best US accents are the clear California accent you hear with someone like Robert Redford or New England/Northeast accent of Sam Waterston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ivanka Trump**

Yoga instructor voice with a 5th grade vocabulary using the same 6 descriptors over and over is posh?

There's a reason she had to TRANSFER into Wharton even though her father is a billionaire alum. Vapid plastic bimbo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ivanka Trump**

But hers is so breathy and fake. I can't bear to listen to her. It's the audible version of the way she poses with her chin so delicately resting on back of her hand.

[Anonymous]

How about deep south? A refined drawl can be so genteel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about deep south? A refined drawl can be so genteel

The Southern accent sounds like the very definition of uneducated and ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Locust Valley Lockjaw (Long Island)
Larchmont Lockjaw (Westchester)
Basically local terms for mid-Atlantic speech. As in, midway btw US and UK and not as in this part of the country. The accent was affected and taught but died out. Listen to John Cheever reading The Swimmer on Youtube or FDR, William F Buckley or, I suppose, Frasier Crane.

For my money I think the best US accents are the clear California accent you hear with someone like Robert Redford or New England/Northeast accent of Sam Waterston.

Or my father. Born and bred Californian, but I think the difference is that he was born in the 1920s. That way of speaking is dead/dying. Lazy, sloppy speech has taken over. Even newscasters speak poorly these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about deep south? A refined drawl can be so genteel

Reminds me of fire hoses, snarling German shepherds, and burning crosses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Locust Valley Lockjaw

I know tons of Northeastern born and bred boarding school alums and don't know any under age 70 who speak with the Hepburn/FDR/Kerry accent

Locust Valley is on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.

I know, which is why I said Northeastern and not New England.