[Ads-l] "Larchmont Lockjaw" Not in OED

[Shapiro, Fred]

"Larchmont Lockjaw," a term for a mid-Atlantic upper-class accent, is not in the OED.  The earliest occurrence I have found is the following:

1973 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 June 4E (Newspapers.com)

Raised in Central Park West and already speaking the kind of "Larchmont Lockjaw" to which such hot house bred young women seem to be addicted.

Fred Shapiro



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