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D$P's New Britain glottal stop while otherwise trying so hard to appear to have such an above average intellect** using words such as 'behoove'* boggles my mind and drives me to distraction. Ms. Morgenstern from an article in The New York Times attributed this sound to New Britain's large Polish-American population. "The New Britain accent is much more distinctive, even in the way residents pronounce the name of their city: "New Breh-EN." They don't enunciate their consonants as much," she said. "The funny thing is, you go into the next town, and you don't hear it,". Though he is from Bridgeport which has a different speech pattern it could be due to his polish background as according to the speech pathologist New Britain residents have this distinct way of speaking that can be traced to the Polish immigrants who settled there beginning mostly in the late 19th century. Then again...
*"In my household growing up we watched William F. Buckley Jr. on 'Firing Line,' and to me, that was the Connecticut accent," said Kirk Varner, the news director at Channel 8 in New Haven, who grew up in South Carolina. "The sense was that people in Connecticut spoke in a much more precise kind of way, almost like they were trying to sound erudite, even if they were not."
** from the same article
D$P's New Britain glottal stop while otherwise trying so hard to appear to have such an above average intellect** using words such as 'behoove'* boggles my mind and drives me to distraction. Ms. Morgenstern from an article in The New York Times attributed this sound to New Britain's large Polish-American population. "The New Britain accent is much more distinctive, even in the way residents pronounce the name of their city: "New Breh-EN." They don't enunciate their consonants as much," she said. "The funny thing is, you go into the next town, and you don't hear it,". Though he is from Bridgeport which has a different speech pattern it could be due to his polish background as according to the speech pathologist New Britain residents have this distinct way of speaking that can be traced to the Polish immigrants who settled there beginning mostly in the late 19th century. Then again...
"Another strong influence on speech patterns is education, Ms. Morgenstern said. "You won't find such accents as much with an educated population," she said. "They're more cognizant of the way they speak."
Consequently, the New York accent doesn't extend too far into Connecticut before losing its influence.
"It doesn't usually extend into wealthy pockets like Greenwich, Darien or New Canaan," Ms. Gomola said. "It can wiggle around the tracks, because that's where the poorer pockets are, even as far as Bridgeport.""
Sidenote I found amusing:*"In my household growing up we watched William F. Buckley Jr. on 'Firing Line,' and to me, that was the Connecticut accent," said Kirk Varner, the news director at Channel 8 in New Haven, who grew up in South Carolina. "The sense was that people in Connecticut spoke in a much more precise kind of way, almost like they were trying to sound erudite, even if they were not."
** from the same article
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Oh yeah, 'Heatwave' is a good one dood, hasn't been mentioned yet.
