-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:00:06AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > About 20 miles East of the city. > > Well, more like zero (Queens and Brooklyn are part of both the city > and the Island, unless you're talking like the locals, to whom The City > is Manhattan, and the rest is referred to by borough name) to 120 miles > east. There's a reason they call it _Long_ Island. :-) > > > I guess you were referring to a New York City accent like in the old > > gangster movies? Like Jimmy Cagney, maybe? > > It ain't just the old movies---that accent is alive and well and > living in Queens. How Queens and Brooklyn accents can be so different > (they're adjacent on the Island) is beyond me. >
I grew up in Brooklyn, and I have to say that New York, for such a small state, has the largest diversity in accents I've ever heard. Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, and more; Even upstate New York has it's own set of accents! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGESuX/o7Q/FCvPe0RAghGAJ0cyFBIkcP1PLlCf6UudDwcHN1xxQCeKFYx 5nPQW/XhqKHWLN+xRDtXCdg= =1Vzx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
