Gotham Center Discussion Boards / common NYC mispronounciations

Jack · 2012-03-03 10:37:50

Most of the 'deez and doze' and toity-toid street accent was from northern Brooklyn, primarily in Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods. I remember the first movie Peter Falk was in called "Murder, Inc." The new DA is named Burt Turkus, and one of the cops says: "On Pitkin Avenue he'll be called Boit Toikis."

jimbo · 2012-03-04 09:46:51

Every thing is outawhack..

kay · 2012-03-05 13:45:04

Silvernear For Souvenir

kay · 2012-03-05 13:46:38

Terlet For Toilet

CharlieP. · 2012-03-07 09:25:35

I need an earl change.

ed d · 2012-03-07 15:09:04

always thought that it was funny....in NYC, if your name was Earl, you would be called "OIL"....if you needed oil, you would get a quart of "Earl"

Mike · 2012-03-07 19:25:32

Ed, not a New Yorkism, but you just reminded me of a friend from Jamaica who has lived in East New York (K) for 30 years now who pronounces anything that starts with a HO with an O, and anything that starts with an O with an H. A hose is a oze, and an oven is a hoven.

CharlieP. · 2012-03-09 10:20:24

Mike,
My wife is from England,and she does the same exact thing ! They use to give her speach excersizes in her school,so that they would not drop the h . This is one of them: " Hary went to Haringgate,Hary wore a hat,Hary's mother said to Hary "Hary,where's your hat". Hanging in the hall mother hanging on a hook. Hary's mother said to Hary "Hary,have a look".
It didn't work ! LOL

ed d · 2012-03-09 12:45:00

Mike....thats a pretty "arry" story

Mike · 2012-03-09 16:17:16

Charlie, it makes sense. Britain taught the West Indies to speak English. Of all the people I know from the Caribbean and about a dozen from Guiana and a handful from Trinidad/Tabago, almost all were educated in "British System" schools. The majority of Jamaicans in particular I know went on to "University" in England before coming to the U.S.A.

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