# What accent is this/does it still exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506 "2018-07-08T02:43:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/21 "2018-07-09T01:59:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My first impression was Virginia. > > But then, I haven’t actually been to Virginia. I’ve been here 50 years, and I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “chewing” like “chirrin’”. Now, if the person was actually saying “children” then I’d tell you that was Southeast DC, no question. > [@pkbites](#): > > . . . > It’s a voice actor doing a cartoon voice and a cartoon bulls voice at that. > . . . > What accent does this [Yak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfr8jSVnHY) have? Yes. That “Yak” is a Brooklyn boy who went to Hebrew School and has never seen or heard a yak. [Actual Yaks](https://youtu.be/21AFRrPQiZc?t=16) [Yakkety Sax](https://youtu.be/Zcq_xLi2NGo?t=17) > [@pulykamell](#): > > See, to me it sounds like an old-timey accent I’d expect to hear in the 40s or 50s. Perhaps not “archaic,” but old-timey. Maybe it’s because it sounds like some cartoon accent to me, and I associate cartoon accents with that time period. I agree. What you have there is a trained voice actor trying to sound like a 1940’s movie cowboy. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/22 "2018-07-09T02:00:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Flatbush, accent, really, a mix of Brooklyn and Bronx, at least according to Mel Blanc. I kind of wondered about that, because both as a New Yorker and someone who has read learned discussions on that type of accent–perhaps in a thread or two here–I!m not sure if a Brooklyn vs. Bronx vs. generic-over the top NYC can be localized to that one borough. Note that in your response/cite, Flatbush (as you no doubt know) _is_ in Brooklyn, so Mel Blanc, for one, definitely has come to his own conclusions on what goes into his character’s speech. ETA:But we don’t know if he is using “Flatbush” as synecdoche for all of Brooklyn (ie, distinctive as a borough as a whole), or that he is specifying just one of _other_ “Brooklyn accents” found in other neighborhoods there. My wife, who is from Bensonhurst (Brooklyn) claims that accent is “a Canarsie (Brooklyn) accent.” ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/23 "2018-07-09T02:07:53Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > … > That “Yak” is a Brooklyn boy who went to Hebrew School and has never seen or heard a yak. > [Actual Yaks](https://youtu.be/21AFRrPQiZc?t=16)… The devotion in GQ to sharing scholarship and backing up posts with citations is truly impressive. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/24 "2018-07-09T02:33:19Z")
Sounds a little bit like a Bing Crosby imitation. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/25 "2018-07-09T03:07:40Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Sounds a little bit like a Bing Crosby imitation. You mean [this](https://youtu.be/xOFG_qmoH8I)? At 3:20. ---
**Author:** ![SOJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SOJA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SOJA)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/26 "2018-07-09T04:01:57Z")
Sounds like a mix between transatlantic and north east. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506/27 "2018-07-09T04:46:16Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It can be a made-up accent by a voice actor that has no analog to an actual real accent, but there’s certainly an “accent” going on there. It seems like one of the common old-time Hollywood cowboy accents, as though the voice actor were trying to sound like that guy on _Bonanza_ or something. Either way it’s most likely an affectation, so I don’t see much point in trying pin it down to a region. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-does-it-still-exist/817506.md?page=1)