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are the accents in the boroughs of new york pereceptibly different?

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eg does someone from queens sound different from someone brooklyn does someone from manhattan etc

― geoffrey, Friday, 28 April 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Queens: New Yawk
Brooklyn: Noo Yawk
Manhattan: Nieuw Yourk
Bronx: New Yardman
Staten Island: Shaolin

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

when you cross into a new borough, say while on the subway, you are required to perceptiby shift your accent. while enforcement varies, fines are possible.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Bowery Boys vs O.D.B.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Queens out-yawps Brooklyn anyday.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)


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