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North American English Dialects
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.
schwartzworld
on Aug 5, 2023
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That's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.
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