[Ads-l] "Brooklyn accent"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1891 Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Oct. 28) 8: He spoke in German, with a strong
Brooklyn accent.

The accent in question was brought to national attention as a working-class
Lower East Side accent by Edward W. Townsend in his stories of "Chimmie
Fadden" (1895).

More specifically:

1914 Franklin P. Adams, in _N. Y. Tribune_  (Oct. 22) 6: An unneutral
contrib suggests that the Kaiser is the potentate who took the joy out of
Joymany.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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