| Show New Englanders Lose Famous Accent Boston Abandons Broad A PROVIDENCE R. R I. I New I.-New New England is losing its famous brand of speech Even literary Boston stronghold strong strong- hold of the broad broa A A. A Is succumbing to the example of or non Bostonian accents accents ac nc- ac- ac cents heard over the rn radio lo on the movie screen creen and In other con can Fading of New England's Individual ual way o of f talking Is detected by Dr Hans lIans Kurath of Brown university sity who has completed the Or first t ts s systematic survey surveyor of New England speech ever attempted The surIs sur survey surY Y Is for a Linguistic Atlas of or the United United United Unit Unit- ed States and Canada which Doctor Doctor Doctor Doc Doc- tor Is directing It has taken four years to survey survey survey sur sur- vey New England alon alone Doctor Kurath Kurath Ku Ku- rath reports His Ills stare staff starr visited 2 5 communities talking with people and making phonograph records and notations all nil the way from rein the Green Oreen mountains to Cape Cod and from Maine to Connecticut Way down East along the seacoast seacoast seacoast sea- sea coast New England phrases and antl pronunciations are hest best holding their own Doctor Kurath learned A wheelbarrow Is still a wool harrow barrow In a coast village And AnI forty Is s still sUlI foty with the vowel sounded like a n In Un all 11 Rut But wC western western west west- tern t- t ern New En Englanders pronounce their rs urs and central New Englanders Eng Eng- landers are arc taking to the western fashion |
