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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Kennedys spoke with what is called the Mid-Atlantic accent (also sometimes known as the Boston Brahmin accent or Long Island Lockjaw). It is a consciously acquired accent, meaning that people had to be taught to speak that way. It's not an accent native to a specific location, like the famous Boston accent. It was largely taught in Northeastern prep schools and acting schools, so you would hear it in upper-class Easterners and stage actors. It's pretty much no longer taught, so the kind of people who in the 1940s and 50s would have learned it, aren't learning it anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent [/quote] That’s an interesting article. [/quote]
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