Boston Brahmin

This is an example of the old upper-class accent of Boston.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Accent
• boston
• brahman
• upper
• class

[jaegerhund]

I hate to see these accents die off.

[humphriedboswell]

You are wrong. It isn't affected. I know old people from Boston who naturally talk like that.

[srt619]

is this a documentary?

[MickyG4444]

They're like those two old muppets

[sauroid1]

When I was young this is how the Beacon Hill, Pride's Crossing, or Manchester By The Sea set spoke. The men usually wore Brooks Brother's suits with the old college tie and wingtip shoes. In the summer, searsucker suits, straw hats, and maybe spectator shoes.

[inkey2]

All freedom of speech has been removed. Such drivel will not be tolerated on any video of mine.

[TheFlanker35]

@orsetto81utube,

It's a little different from "Mid-Atlantic" dialects that you'd hear from Bill Buckley. The speaker @1:10 has a thicker accent than the other, but it is nasal and the vowel shift is different than what one would hear in British English. Words such as "coarse" and "four" are two syllable words in this dialect.

[orsetto81utube]

This is proper british, NOT brahmin. LAME. You do not understand, I was educated in the uk, so i have a brohmin accent. Not quite one or the other. Brohmin as a bit british, but largely american

[orsetto81utube]

This is proper british, NOT brahmin. LAME. You do not understand, I was educated in the uk, so i have a brohmin accent. Not quite one or the other

[Snortthesweetener]

there's still the distinct boston phoneticism of the A and the non rhoticity of words like card. as a speaker of received pronunciation from an aristocratic english family I cannot see how the accents are confused.

[ALBIONTYKE]

Coming from England that accent sounds more early 20th century English than the English sound today, yet he said his family had been in America for 350 years. amazing. I guess radio & TV has killed off a lot of the old accents, it's the same in Britain, sad in many ways.