[Magdalen] "Poor Little Old Rhode Island."

[Susan Hagen]

Greater Boston accent on tough pills

Love that description!


On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>
> As the song goes:  "Smallest in the 48."
>
>
> A new caregiver for Wilfred came by this morning.  She is a   pleasant
> young lady who is dating seriously a young truck farmer. She will be
> here a couple of hours a day six days a week.
>
> I was startled to hear her say that she is a native of Rhode Island.
>
> She has no trace of that regional accent at all, and when I pointed that
> out,
> she admitted hating her Rhode Island regional accent - a sort of  Greater
> Boston accent on tough pills.  She has worked to lose it and to take  on
> a General American rhotic accent.  She has been very successful  at
> this.
>
>
> David S.



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The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:34