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A sign on the periphery of Brooklyn that reads "Fuhgeddaboudit" (a pronunciation spelling of "forget about it"), illustrating the "Brooklyn accent"'s non-rhoticity and t-voicing
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An example of a mostly non-rhotic male speaker with a background in the Bronx and the city of New Rochelle (Chuck Zito).
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An example of a mostly rhotic male speaker from Brooklyn (James S. Shapiro).
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An example of a mostly rhotic male speaker from Queens (Art Spiegelman).
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The sound system of New York City English is popularly known as a New York accent. The New York metropolitan accent is one of the most recognizable accents of the United States, largely due to its popular stereotypes and portrayal in radio, film, and television.[1][2] Several other common names exist for the accent that associate it with more specific locations in the New York City area, such as "Bronx accent", "Brooklyn accent", "Queens accent", "Long Island accent", and "North Jersey accent"; however, no research has demonstrated significant linguistic differences between these locations.[3]
The following is an overview of the phonological structures and variations within the accent.
^Welch, Richard F. (2009). King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. SUNY Press. p. 196. ISBN 9781438431826
^Labov (1966), p. 18
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