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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mid-Atlantic English or Harvard Lockjaw (aka Yale Lockjaw).[/quote] 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[/quote] Both my dad's parents and their siblings etc had this. It wasn't affected: before mass media, this class was fairly insular, going to the same churches, schools, colleges, belonging to the same clubs, living and vacationing in the same places, marrying each other. Typical would be a home on the upper east side, a country place in Oyster Bay, and something in Palm Beach. Personally, I loved it: sing-songy, melifluent. As someone else wrote, anyone under 70 speaking this way sounds affected. [/quote]
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