[78-L] 1st Family (was: It's BAAAACK!)

[martha]

 Hoover, Harding, and Taft sound about the same to my ears - just Regular 
Guys speaking plain Mid-West American English, which might be the purest 
form of Modern English in the world.  Between Albany and Denver, all us 
'Merricans try to pronounce as many of the letters as we read.  :)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] 1st Family (was: It's BAAAACK!)


> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:41 -0500, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> As well, JFK's notable "accent" made
>> it quite easy to parody his speech patterns; OTOH, virtually all of the
>> previous presidents had the hopelessly-bland sound of the "midwest"...?!
>
> Only two that the general public had heard: Eisenhower and Truman.
>
> Roosevelt was from New York but his public addresses were in that
> affected "long-throw" school of oratory that was popular in the 19th and
> early 20th centuries, but which is virtually unknown today.
>
> Hoover was from the midwest, but I don't know how much radio exposure
> his voice got...it was probably more likely that it was captured on
> newsreels. Coolidge was a Vermonter, but Harding was from Ohio. Harding
> was from before sound films and widespread radio, but maybe he had a
> phonograph record or two.
>
> MS