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I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.

There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.

The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.



Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell. You don't encounter them as much today in the wild, possibly because of how they were caricatured on TV.


I think you’re much more likely to hear a foreign accent than a waspy one these days. Charles Emerson Winchester III isn’t walking thru that door.


That's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.


Kennedy more had the wasp-ish accent. The other you could hear from some priests

But these days, it's all drowned out by Matt Damon and Ben Afleck's version. I feel like Bostonians talk like caricatures of themselves


Where does Bill Burr fit in there




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