Accent loss in New York</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Accent loss in New York"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Accent,loss,in,New,York"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">26-02-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Accent loss in New York</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA (Gothamist): The loss of the working class New York dialect is most prevalent in Manhattan, where the old money Mid-Atlantic accent, ala George Plimpton and Julianne Moore’s Maude Lebowski (YouTube clip), is also heading for obsolescence as newer generations perceive it as pure affectation. The blue collar accent is often thought of as specifically Brooklyn, but linguistic research proves that wrong, according to NYU doctoral candidate Kara Becker: <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://gothamist.com/2008/02/25/new_york_city_a_1.php " target="blank">gothamist.com/2008/02/25/new_york_city_a_1.php </a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show