Posted by petofi on January 24, 2002 at 18:25:03:
In Reply to: Re: "Regional accents" posted by kuanyin on January 24, 2002 at 17:21:11:
Being a "downeaster" myself (Ayuh!), I feel the trophy might go to Thayer David, another New Englander. His Matthew Morgan and Ben Stokes caught two cadences of the more classic coastal Maine accent, which, amazingly, has changed somewhat in places in the years since 1966. However, for overall flavor and reasonable accuracy( considering there are dozens of variations of Maine dialect, from Calais to Aroostook County to Boothbay Harbor), Thayer gets a "Finest Kind" (pronounced fy-ness kyne) from me.
Puhtawfi, Ayuh!