[lit-ideas] "Everybody has an Accent" -- Except Nutmeggers
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:22:30 EDT
A. Ramos:
>>The only place that has a regional accent is the Northeast, esp. >>NYC and
Boston.
This reminds of one of the myths in Trudgill and Bauer,
"Everybody has an accent except me"
by Esling.
The issue was being discussed recently in the "Connecticut" section of the
NYC, entitled,
"Connecticut Hasn't Got an Accent"
0r something of that sort.
The reason, the article read, was that inhabitants of Greenwich -- if not
Stamford, for example, as oposed to NYC or Boston, travel _abroad_ too often,
and do not really have time to develop a 'regional' accent. They have survived
the hard overseas travelling by being able to accomodate their English to an
'international upper-class understandable variety' that everybody is
familiar or friendly with.
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