"Posh" American accent?

[Anonymous]

I think there have been articles written about how the way newscasters talk is considered the "best" American accent and that is typically a northern/midwestern accent (think Ohio/Michigan). I think some people think southern accents are lower class, but a lot of southerners (especially the wealthy ones) would tell you the opposite!!

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

Don't worry, PP, *I* caught your sarcasm here.

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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.

Locust Valley Lockjaw

[Anonymous]

New England WASP (AKA Boston Brahmin) and Southern "Plantation Class" are the only ones that comes to mind, and I'm pretty sure they're dying out.

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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.

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.

You're an idiot. Take it to the politics thread.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

As was Jackie O's, Marilyn Monroe, etc. which is exactly what we're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Boy, I guess it's still fashionable and acceptable to be prejudiced against Irish Catholics and Southerners.

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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.

No. They had attempted Brahmin accents. But really more back bay/cake vid/etc.
The old school American accent was the mid Atlantic . Old school movie stars, for example. It was actually taught formally. Akin to RP in the U.K.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

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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.

Oh. I beg to differ. Old school Richmond accents are highly southern and highly refined and genteel.

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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.)

It's basically regional. Yes, the Kennedys' accent is not "posh," it's just the Kennedys. FDR is correct, though for NY. William F. Buckley for Connecticut. There is a Boston Brahmin accent, as well. Think of Charles Winchester in MASH. There is an upper class southern accent in most parts of the south, as well, but I'm pretty sure most northerners can't tell the difference. Southerners can.

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Jared Taylor

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

Yes. This is the only right answer, and it's really almost non-applicable anymore.

The Kennedy family are not WASPs.

They are Roman Catholics.

Feck all! To be genuinely Irish is to challenge WASP dominance.

[Anonymous]

I've been told I have a "posh" way of speaking. One other person asked me if I had a speech impediment as a child (lol). I am a WASP, raised in DC and went to country clubs, so i guess it fits. But it's nothing I notice. Though when I'm home among the friends I grew up with i do kind of notice a different way of speaking- almost... more precise? I don't know how to describe it, but it's the way your mouth moves when speaking. But certainly it's not super noticeable

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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 think Gloria Vanderbilt has this type of accent, but it's not one you hear on anyone under 80 now.