Jackie Kennedy's accent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me she sounds more southern, like an old money Richmond or Charleston accent, but trying to hide it at the same time, so that it comes out suttley, and her slow speech doesn't help.

I thought the same (watching the clip of her talking about the white house). Definitely affected but with some southern thrown in.

[Anonymous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Valley_lockjaw. This is fascinating, although I always thought that James Bottomtooth III in Family Guy was demonstrating the famous Habsburg Jaw of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that popped up in descendant royals including Marie Antoinette and Prince Philip II of Spain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognathism#Mandibular_prognathism_.28progenism.29

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Valley_lockjaw. This is fascinating, although I always thought that James Bottomtooth III in Family Guy was demonstrating the famous Habsburg Jaw of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that popped up in descendant royals including Marie Antoinette and Prince Philip II of Spain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognathism#Mandibular_prognathism_.28progenism.29

Interesting. Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Valley_lockjaw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me she sounds more southern, like an old money Richmond or Charleston accent, but trying to hide it at the same time, so that it comes out suttley, and her slow speech doesn't help.

I thought the same (watching the clip of her talking about the white house). Definitely affected but with some southern thrown in.

It reads as southern to me, but I think that's the lack of the final "R" sounds and also some of the diphthongs on the vowels which give it a bit of a drawl. Not like Katherine Hepburn, who has no "R" but has short vowels. (Hepburn also has the very characteristic creaky voice, aka "vocal fry".)

[Anonymous]

OMG im spending too much time on the site. I knew this was a zombie thread.

[Anonymous]

She sounded like Marilyn Mo,roe.

[Anonymous]

she faked it. her sister in laws used to laugh at her

[Anonymous]

I think it makes her sound a bit slow or high on drugs. I don't find it appealing or cultured at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she faked it. her sister in laws used to laugh at her

I don't think it was all fake, but the "breathiness" does sound a bit affected. Still, she was a lovely and strong woman.

[Anonymous]

I hear some Virginian long vowels in there LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not the old money poster, but Jackie's accent is that of Miss Porter's School in Manhattan. I know women who went to that school, and they all have that breathless, unidentifiable European accent way of speaking. They are 40 years younger than Jackie, but still sound the same.

Miss Porter's is in Farmington, CT. Before that she went to Chapin which is in Manhattan. I know many many people who went there and none of them speak like that.

Are you 104 years old? Because otherwise your experience is moot.

[Anonymous]

How did this old thread get revived? I think the lockjaw theory pretty much sums it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching a few of the Kennedy assassination shows this weekend. Just wondering what kind of accent Jackie has? Where did she grow up and is it a typical accent from that area?

Pretentious.

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Anonymous wrote:I've always thought that she sounded high as a kite

She was. She and JFK used dangerous amounts of drugs.

Um, source? JFK ok, he had Addison's disease and was a partier, but Jackie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It wasn't made up to sound like it was from snobby old money?

Yes. She went to boarding school and they taught the Mid-Atlantic accent. It's halfway between British and American accents, and was completely made up to sound educated and elite.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-katharine-hepburns-fake-accent/278505/

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