But some locals beg to differ. “I would say I have a Queens accent,” said Frank Barone, 62, a cobbler who has lived in Astoria for 44 years. “We all speak New York slang, but there’s a ...

While Queens residents are worried their specific, nasal dialect of classic New Yawk slang may be dying, some residents are arguing it never existed in the first place! Queens College linguistics ...

The New York accent, with its dropped Rs, is “absolutely from British English,” says Kara Becker, a Ph.D. student at NYU who is writing her dissertation on New York City English.

Ed Koch, one of the New York accent’s leading practitioners, once remarked that it might be good if it just disappeared. But hold on. Many agree that there’s more to the New York patois than ...

They are two men from the outer boroughs of New York – both with the Queens accent to prove it, each with his own distinctive rhythm – born of domineering fathers who chose their careers for them and ...

We all know the sound of a classic New York accent. ... of linguistics and chair of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Newman says, over time, newcomers -- especially in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn-- are diluting the sound of the New York City dialect. "The younger generation, between Gen Z and the millennials ...