[Ads-l] Hey, Did You Know Michael Cohen Has an Accent?

[George Thompson]

>From New York Today, a newsletter from the NYTimes, posted March 1.
*"Mr. Cohen’s voice: *The Long Island-raised Mr. Cohen spoke in a drawl
common to anyone who grew up, say, east of Bayside, Queens. It also was a
source of pride, and anxiety, for many
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watched."

The link is to an article in New York Magazine.  I hope that the link works
for you, including the responses.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/michael-cohen-long-island-accent.html

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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