Here’s a sampling for today, with more planned in the days ahead. The responses fall into interesting categories: linguistic descriptions of this accent sociological and ethnic explanations for its rise and fall possible technological factors in its prominence and disappearance explanations rooted in the movie industry nominees for who might have been the last American to talk this way and suggestions that a few rare specimens still exist. ![]() ![]() Thanks for the scores of replies that have arrived in the past day, in response to my post asking why the stentorian, phony-British Announcer Voice that dominated newsreel narration, stage and movie acting, and public discourse in the United States during the first half of the 20 th century had completely disappeared.
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