> Take one of the sounds typically associated with New York speech – the oi that’s heard when ‘bird’ is pronounced boid, ‘earl’ oil, ‘certainly’ soitanly, and so on.
My grandmudda spoke liked dat. She grew up in Brooklyn, one of 9 kids in an Irish immigrant family. Another fond pronunciation I remember was she pronounced toilet as ter-let. "Dija flush the terlet?"
I myself still maintain a "disgustingly thick" (as a co-worker once put it) NYC accent owing to growing up among many Italian Americans in a little neighborhood called Ozone Park. When traveling, upon opening my mouth, people immediatly recognize where I'm from.
My grandmudda spoke liked dat. She grew up in Brooklyn, one of 9 kids in an Irish immigrant family. Another fond pronunciation I remember was she pronounced toilet as ter-let. "Dija flush the terlet?"
I myself still maintain a "disgustingly thick" (as a co-worker once put it) NYC accent owing to growing up among many Italian Americans in a little neighborhood called Ozone Park. When traveling, upon opening my mouth, people immediatly recognize where I'm from.