Barry utters NYT 'QUOTATION OF THE DAY'

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/16/06, Michael McKernan <mckernan at localnet.com> wrote:
>
> From the online digest of NYT headlines:
>
> >- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
> >
> >"He's not sounding like Fran Drescher's 'The Nanny' yet, but it appears to
> >me that he's picked some of that up.
> >
> >"
> >- BARRY POPIK,   on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's speaking more like a New
> >Yorker.
>
> APPLAUSE SIGN IS ON.

Making Barry more quoteworthy than any of the "linguists enlisted by
The New York Times to compare recordings of the mayor's first and
second inaugural addresses" (William Labov, Paul Meier, Joan Houston,
George Jochnowitz, William A. Kretzschmar).

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/nyregion/16accent.html


--Ben Zimmer

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