What Are The Elements Of Northern New England Dialect?
Pahk the Cah In Havahd Yahd: Northern New England and the New, Old World
Some of the oldest cities in the United States can be found along the coast to the Northeast: New York, Boston, Jersey City. They’ve grown from backwoods settlements to thriving bastions of urban Americana. Yet, when one mentions New England, an image of “olden times” comes to mind: Brahmin men and women with buckles on their shoes, lacking rhoticity, using thee/thou/thy. It is interesting then to discover that the New England dialect is in fact a fairly novel convention.
The Boston Brahmins were a wealthy, élite group of upper-class New England families that prided themselves patrons of art and at the forefront of all things fashionable. Their distinct style of speaking
Some of the oldest cities in the United States can be found along the coast to the Northeast: New York, Boston, Jersey City. They’ve grown from backwoods settlements to thriving bastions of urban Americana. Yet, when one mentions New England, an image of “olden times” comes to mind: Brahmin men and women with buckles on their shoes, lacking rhoticity, using thee/thou/thy. It is interesting then to discover that the New England dialect is in fact a fairly novel convention.
The Boston Brahmins were a wealthy, élite group of upper-class New England families that prided themselves patrons of art and at the forefront of all things fashionable. Their distinct style of speaking