Speak with a New York Accent

Drop R endings
before, entire, here, hours, more, swear

Drop the Unstressed R
longer, father, mother
I swear I’m not doing this any longer
that happens in New York, but not in Boston.

AW Thickens
longer, brought, awesome

Respect the Short O
accomplished, colossal, knowledge

Stay here if you want. I honestly don’t think I’m up for anything more. I’m not doing this any longer. I swear, I don’t know which is worse. Before you brought me here, I was convinced this entire place was a hoax. Then I get here, and it turns out there is some merit to the wild claims. This raised my hopes. Maybe something would be accomplished. Yet we’re hours into this fiasco and it’s all a colossal disappointment.

We’re hours into this fiasco and it’s all a colossal disappointment.
Hours, all, colossal

Rules and laws are for either the honest soul or the faint of heart.
Rules, laws, either, honest, heart

The handbook "Speak with a New York Accent" takes the exotic art of performing with dialects and delivers easy-to-follow lessons (including a longer list of those exceptional short A sounds). Break all barriers to learning the New York accent with this book, and at your next audition the casting directors will be scraping their jaws off the floor.

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