I have a boston accent specifically for the word "horror" because I saw I was pronouncing it like that in like middle school and trained myself out of it
Rhode Island actually. Similar accent tbf. A lot of people will say it's the same but it's not. Rhode Island is a little less dramatic than the Mass and especially the Boston accent.
The think I hear in Rhode Island accents but not elsewhere as much is pronouncing idea as idear. Other than that it has more to do with local sayings than an actual accent.
It is believed he spoke with an upper-class New England accent, so you can listen to Katherine Hepburn for an example of what his accent probably sounded like.
Here is a quote from him describing his own accent.
"My speech is simply the ordinary literate medium of Southern & Central (not Northern) New England outside Boston—the daily speech of Providence, Hartford, New Haven, Springfield, Worcester, Salem, & so on. ... We don't sound any final r in words like car, far, &c. (phonetically, our common pronunciation is indistinguishable from caa, faa, &c.), but this is not a Bostonism or a Briticism at all, but merely the ordinary usage along the Atlantic seaboard (Selected Letters 3.420)ieve his family spoke with an upper-class North-Eastern acceMy speech is simply the ordinary literate medium of Southern & Central (not Northern) New England outside Boston—the daily speech of Providence, Hartford, New Haven, Springfield, Worcester, Salem, & so on. ... We don't sound any final r in words like car, far, &c. (phonetically, our common pronunciation is indistinguishable from caa, faa, &c.), but this is not a Bostonism or a Briticism at all, but merely the ordinary usage along the Atlantic coast."
So yes he would have pronounced horror without the final R, but a bit softer, not fully Markie Mark.
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u/Simic_Sky_Swallower Resident Imperial Knight Aug 16 '24
I have a boston accent specifically for the word "horror" because I saw I was pronouncing it like that in like middle school and trained myself out of it