NYT Reveals: Philly Italians Are Racist Against The Letter “R”
“In Philadelphia, an r-pronouncing city, there’s a certain amount of r-lessness among Italian-Americans.”
- William Labov, the father of sociolinguistics, as quoted in “The Medium: Speech Therapy” by Virginia Heffernan, Sunday New York Times Magazine,
January 21, 2010
This was an article about how Jersey Shore is a valuable tool in preserving the regional accents that many of us (present company included) strove long and hard to ditch because we wanted more out of life than, well, what the Jersey Shore kids have.
January 25th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
You know, Philadelphians might not be able to speak english well, but we sure have some great music. Check us out at myspace.com/thefleetingends
January 26th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Does that make them ‘acist’, then? *cymbal
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