[cecida]

I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.

There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.

The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.

[aristus]

Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell. You don't encounter them as much today in the wild, possibly because of how they were caricatured on TV.

[yuppie_scum]

I think you’re much more likely to hear a foreign accent than a waspy one these days. Charles Emerson Winchester III isn’t walking thru that door.

[schwartzworld]

That's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.

[dogmatism]

Kennedy more had the wasp-ish accent. The other you could hear from some priests

But these days, it's all drowned out by Matt Damon and Ben Afleck's version. I feel like Bostonians talk like caricatures of themselves

[imbnwa]

Where does Bill Burr fit in there