- New York City English, or
Metropolitan New York English, is a
regional dialect of
American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding...
- and
speech pattern called the New York dialect,
alternatively known as
Brooklynese or New Yorkese. It has been
considered one of the most
recognizable accents...
- By 1940
Brophy was so
identified as a
Runyonesque character with a
Brooklynese speech pattern that he was cast as the
voice of
Timothy Q.
Mouse in Dumbo...
- "the People's Cherce" (so-called, and spelled,
because "Choice" in the "
Brooklynese" of the mid-20th
century frequently was
pronounced that way). Born on...
- the
voice for Popeye's pal
Shorty (a
caricature of Stang),
Herman the
Brooklynese mouse, and
Tubby Tompkins in a few
Little Lulu shorts. In 1959, ABC Paramount...
- with arch affectation, nor Mark
Damon held to
account for the
traces of
Brooklynese that
creep into his
stiffly costumed impersonation of the
mystified interloper...
- in most
other accents of English. The
merger is
responsible for the "
Brooklynese"
stereotypes of bird
sounding like boid and thirty-third
sounding like...
-
effect in this song, with
several words pronounced in a
stereotypically "
Brooklynese" way: "voive" for "verve", "desoive" for "deserve", and "noive" for "nerve"...
-
advantage of his availability.
Sellers said his
character had "a
dreadful Brooklynese accent but in an
attempt to
appear cultured and
charming he
hides it...
-
opposition seems to be lost more readily,
though not as
readily as the "
Brooklynese"
stereotype might lead one to believe. As in many
other places, initial...
