Is the “New York accent” different by the borough or basically the same? What differences are there?
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this some of the older folks still have this |
Anonymous
I live in the Bronx and said that last week to a driver who wasn't paying nearly enough attention to pedestrians crossing the street. A lot of people drive crazy in NYC. And a lot of people park crazy, like double and triple parking, at least where I live. |
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Age and ethnicity matter more than borough.
For example a Jewish person who grew up in the Brooklyn would speak more similarly to a Jewish person from the Bronx of during the same generation than an Italian American from Brooklyn for example. Also, LI accents are really just the old outer borough white ethnic accents. The influx of newcomers after WWII dwarfed the existing population and these people didn't adopt the "old" LI accent. |
Anonymous
| Interestingly Black New Yorkers have NYC accents too. Even if they have Southern (as opposed to West Indian) roots, they don't talk "southern." It's not like Chicago or Detroit where you have a very sharp contrast between the Inland North Great Lakes accent spoken by whites and AAs sound like they're from Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi. |
Anonymous
I live in Brooklyn and my husband I say this ironically to each other. It’s funny to us. |
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The WASP’y Manhattan accent that originated from Dutch and English families has all but disappeared. It’s really different from the blue collar accents.
Two good examples of different accents from different boroughs: Donald Trump (Queens white working class) and Bernie Sanders (Brooklyn Jewish). |
Anonymous
Educated New Yorkers have never had the traditional NY accent |