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Does anyone still speak with a Mid-Atlantic accent? - EliEverIsAHero - 04-02-2026
It certainly seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Are there any known holdovers?
RE: Does anyone still speak with a Mid-Atlantic accent? - SteveFoerster - 04-03-2026
That's an interesting question. Did anyone ever really natively talk like that? I always thought that was just something actors put on in old movies to sound posh.
RE: Does anyone still speak with a Mid-Atlantic accent? - EliEverIsAHero - 04-03-2026
I believe it was taught a great deal as proper elocution in elite boarding schools and private schools more generally.
YouTube has a series of recordings of speeches by the candidates in the 1912 U.S. election. All of them (Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson) speak with variations of a Mid-Atlantic cadence.
RE: Does anyone still speak with a Mid-Atlantic accent? - SteveFoerster - 04-03-2026
Today I learned!