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Brooklyn Accent By Betsy Allman, Tiye Sheares and Eve Cantler For years, Brooklyn has been recognized for its interesting and unique accent. Strangely enough, the Brooklyn accent is slowly fading away. As the Brooklyn accent fades away, the Jersey accent dominates. However, the Brooklyn accent could never disappear completely. Below we have put together the most common words that put a real emphasis on the Brooklyn accent. In parenthesis, we have the pronunciation of them with the Brooklyn accent. • Coffee (cawffee) • Daughter (dawta) • Door (dawr) • Dog (dawg) • Frog (frawg) • Talk (tawk) • Here (hea) • Water (wata) • I (oy) • Them (dem) • Idea (idear) • Sugar (suga) • Darling (dawling) • Dear (dea) • God (gawd) |
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