Last time I heard this accent was around 1980 before I headed out of NYC to the west coast. Two older guys in their 50's would still do random Three Stooges schtick in the mailroom where I worked and I think they knew it was entertaining to younger employees. I loved listening to them. A lot more fun than listening to my boss.
i see a lot of the comments saying that the accent is dead... i'm a 19 year old from the bronx and i still have a heavy new york accent. there has been an influx of people who aren't native new yorkers especially in the city.(manhattan) here however i know a lot of kids my age who still have the accent since we were raised by native new yorkers as were their parents. we still sound like these guys and while it may be rarer to see nowadays we're still here!
Yes. I lived in New York from 2000-2014 and did come across light versions of the accent, though mostly you didn't hear it in Manhattan. However, I worked with a 19 year old guy at a Broadway theater who worked the stage door and he definitely had the accent. It was so much like the movies that it seemed like he had to be putting it on, but it was the real McCoy.
The way these kids are speaking is dead. I have never in my life heard this CONTINUED speech in New York City ever. I also have a heavy New York accent but not to the point of what you hear in the video. These kids stretch every word. There's this very thin almost piercing tone to it. You may, like me, have hints of it, you may still pronounce many words like they do, but there is no way you sound like these kids do in a continuing stretch of conversation. It's just not there anymore to the extent you see in the video.
My grandparents spoke this way, and to a lesser degree my parents, aunts and uncles, while my brothers and I speak it even less. However, my family had mostly left the Bronx and Manhattan when I was young, and moved to Westchester. My mother's family is Jewish and my father's, Italian. A little bit, people still talk this way, but the cadence and dialect present in this film is dying with those born around WWI. I've lived out west for a dozen years now, and never much noticed my dad's accent, but he really does say, "youse guys", "one, two, tree" and "libary books". In Oregon when I say, "forget about it", or "coffee/mall/talk/dog/want/orange", people get shocked which sometimes embarrasses me, so I monitor my speech when needed.
just saying as someone from outside ny/pa, there are also people like me who find that insanely charming. Let the shocked people experience something new!
Historians say New York accents are basically Cockney and Dublin dialects slowed down. I believe it’s true because my grandparents, all born in Brooklyn and Manhattan, sounded just like Michael Caine in Alfie, or close to it😊Between 1820 and 1860 thousands from London and Liverpool brought their beautiful voices to New York, Boston, and Chicago.
@@mariogiresi6792 sometimes when watching a video, I can’t tell if it’s Irish or American accent until I’ve focused lol they’re pretty similar at times
We watch TV and movies now, so you pick it up from there, but it's still alive. Talk to a NYC construction worker, or some guy from Harlem. They'll tawk the tawk.
I lived in NYC for 14 years and rarely heard it, but it still pops up. I worked at a Broadway Theater in 2000 and the doorman was a 19-year-old guy raised in Brooklyn and he basically had that accent. It was hard to believe it was real because it sounded like a cartoony "Guys and Dolls" accent. My landlady between 2012-14 had a light version of it.
There are some who most definitely been raised in a family where the accent has been passed down for sure. Just very rare to hear it , I remember it vividly when I was younger growing up in brooklyn. 33rd and 3rd would definitely be pronounced Toity Toid and Toid. Three would be pronounced Tree,toilet would be pronounced Terlet. When I do come across someone who still speaks that way it brings back a lot of great memories.
There isnt one single nyc accent, there are however still half a dozen fairly distinct ones. You are right though that new immigrants and transplants (& major media, of course) have greatly shifted and diluted the dialects in nyc. You can still find all over the city large remnants of these accents all the city though.
Actually there is... We are just so used to it we don't realizes it. One time I wen tout of state and a group of older ladies said we sound like New Yorkers... because to them we sounded different... now..I know for sure Brooklyn has an accent.
I m a romanian , studying acting in the UK and i just watched this vid because i wanna pick up the accent , and use it in a song because i have a little course called : Acting through Song . I m gonna sing and act Sue Me from the play/ movie “Guys and dolls”. Wanna have a chat some time ? 😄
@@codenamegrs9278 also romanian here! Merita o facultate in uk? Cum e traiul acolo? As vrea sa raman acolo dupa facultate. Dar m as duce mai degraba pe america decat uk. Also care sunt posibilitatiile cu actoria sau regia pt romani pe acolo?
@@ilonadragomir1184 parerea mea e ca sunt foarte buni la capitolul predat informatie ( au informatie buna si predau si bine) mai nasol cu societatea rece prin partile alea . Caldura sufleteasca ca la noi la romani mai greu gasesti. Eu m am intors dupa 1 an in tara si nu m am mai dus inapoi. ( iti poti lua 2 ani liber de la facultate in caz de nevoie si iti tin studiile pe pauza) . Eu lucram part time la footlocker vindeam in magazin si part time la sky la televiziune ca porter( aranjam sali de conferinta, adunam cani de cafea etc. Easy stuff) Ca si mod de operare : acolo functioneaza tot , autobuzele la timp , institutiile de stat functioneaza foarte bine , etc . Partea materiala e acoperita ca sa zic asa ... mai greu cu spiritualul ( iar asta poate deveni mega drenant pt unii)
Its interesting that many freaked out over the long hair of the beatles in the 60's but look how long the hair was on some of the boys back in the 30's.
The only way you'll hear something that comes close to these accents is to carry on a conversation with a born and raised NYC fireman or policeman, more of German, or Irish than Italian descent. Mass media, eapecially television, has contributed to its demise. As well as upward mobility and the overall cost of in NYC.
My first 6 years of life I lived on Long Island, (West Islip) and then we moved to Az, where i was told by all the kids that I was saying words wrong. I have since lost my Long Island accent except for once in a blue moon a word will be pronounced with the accent.
Well, I’m 27 & Have a decent Brooklyn Accent. I have definitely been taught to speak differently and proper but at the end of the day, the Brooklyn in me Still comes out, ESPECIALLY if you piss me off!
Hey, i know that you've posted this 6 months ago and you may not be in the mood to hear this, but I feel as if its very important for you to not be... inconvenienced by your accent. I'm from Wyoming and i have a bit of a frontier accent, what with words such as foofaraw & and the deep tone. Its not an issue to speak how your ancestors did, especially in these times of widespread homogeneity (not necessarily being a bad thing, just disallowing states & the people within them to feel unique and individual). I know your accent gets a bad rep, but personally its one of if not the most beautiful accent there is to offer.
@@heffpy3750 as a non American, I think every American should be proud of their accent, whatever it may be. I think they’re all great. So much diversity in accents across a single country.
The accent you hear in this film IS DEAD and BURIED. And before anyone questions me, I'm saying the accent in this film is STRESSED to the point of exaggeration when comparing it to modern times. I've never heard this continued accent in Brooklyn There are still HINTS of it left but NOT LIKE THIS - I have hints of this accent in my speech, but I never met someone from Brooklyn who speaks the way the actors in the film do sentence to sentence to the point where it's even a close match - and NO, I'm not talking about hipsters, yuppies or transplants - I'm talking about natives and true blue New Yorkers who spent their time in the borough - from those that became professionals in the work force to those who used to fight for their neighborhoods. Maybe they did talk like this in the 30's and 40's but not from the mid 80's on where I had the maturity to remember such things. Hints YES and some resemblance, but even if the "kids" in the scene are real Brooklyn boys from that era - that continued word to word, sentence to sentence accent is long gone.
I think you're right, but while I lived in New York I heard hints of it. When I first moved to NYC in 2000 I worked as an usher at a Broadway theater and the doorman had the accent. It was so strong that he sounded like a character from GUYS AND DOLLS. I was mostly struck by the fact that it wasn't just from the movies. Few times did I run into an accent that strong. Harpo Marx's son talked about his dad's accent as being that strong--the brothers grew up in the very neighborhood where DEAD END is placed.
It’s interesting that you should say this because my grandmother was French and my grandfather was from the Southside of Chicago and my mother who was born if France was often asked if she was from New York because of the way she spoke.
Movies and TV tend to exaggerate and distort accents. I grew up in Flushing and Fran Drescher's The Nanny did NOT even come close. There is no one New York accent, but the ones we have or had were similar.
These kids were New Yorkers--hired because they were authentically what they were supposed to be. They had a nice long run thanks to that accent. I only knew one guy in New York who truly talked like those kids. He was a stage door guy on Broadway.
I didn't hear the accent very much working and living in the theatre district, but I knew a young 19 year old stage door guy who had the accent. It was so much like an old movie that it seemed like he was putting it on. Nope, it was real.
@Abhishek Dhungel, What did his last name have to do with anything, would a white last name justify his comment? But yes, they do indeed sound funny (indeed much like looney toon characters of old, and no wonder, b/c they ARE from of old) not to say it out of offense. It's for that reason that I came to this video to hear them have conversation like it was nothing (no accent training or anything, it was completely genuine).
I did know a stage door guy at a Broadway theatre who had the accent and he was only 19. A few others had a light version, but his sounded like the Dead End Kids. Still, it's definitely fading.
@@paddysmith461 Set in its time. The Broadway play ran with those same kids in it, opening in 1935, running for two years and then they made the movie version.
@@MichaelDJ68 ok Quality. And is this is how New York was in them days? The kids spoke like this ect ? Would they be italian-American ? Or Irish’s America?
@@paddysmith461 Probably they were a mixed bunch, but the neighborhood depicted is the upper East Side as it was transforming into a rich neighborhood. This story represents the last generation of working class poor who lived there along the East River. Harpo Marx referred to the accent, which he and his brothers had, as the East 90th Street New York accent.
- Ya wanna a fight?
- Ye
- YE
- *YEE*
- *Y E E*
Aeym Gawnna Beet yuu up sow mawch that yoous gawnna feel it in the nekst dayyy, see?
Well join the army ya crumb
Last time I heard this accent was around 1980 before I headed out of NYC to the west coast. Two older guys in their 50's would still do random Three Stooges schtick in the mailroom where I worked and I think they knew it was entertaining to younger employees. I loved listening to them. A lot more fun than listening to my boss.
I was just in Brooklyn and on a tour of the King's Theatre with some locals and they had a lighter version of the accent, but it was there.
i see a lot of the comments saying that the accent is dead... i'm a 19 year old from the bronx and i still have a heavy new york accent. there has been an influx of people who aren't native new yorkers especially in the city.(manhattan) here however i know a lot of kids my age who still have the accent since we were raised by native new yorkers as were their parents. we still sound like these guys and while it may be rarer to see nowadays we're still here!
Yes. I lived in New York from 2000-2014 and did come across light versions of the accent, though mostly you didn't hear it in Manhattan. However, I worked with a 19 year old guy at a Broadway theater who worked the stage door and he definitely had the accent. It was so much like the movies that it seemed like he had to be putting it on, but it was the real McCoy.
The way these kids are speaking is dead. I have never in my life heard this CONTINUED speech in New York City ever.
I also have a heavy New York accent but not to the point of what you hear in the video. These kids stretch every word. There's this very thin almost piercing tone to it. You may, like me, have hints of it, you may still pronounce many words like they do, but there is no way you sound like these kids do in a continuing stretch of conversation. It's just not there anymore to the extent you see in the video.
@@Brooklyn3955 I'm from Jersey and I have a thick accent when I'm drunk. It's still nowhere near as thick as that accent.
My grandparents spoke this way, and to a lesser degree my parents, aunts and uncles, while my brothers and I speak it even less. However, my family had mostly left the Bronx and Manhattan when I was young, and moved to Westchester. My mother's family is Jewish and my father's, Italian. A little bit, people still talk this way, but the cadence and dialect present in this film is dying with those born around WWI. I've lived out west for a dozen years now, and never much noticed my dad's accent, but he really does say, "youse guys", "one, two, tree" and "libary books". In Oregon when I say, "forget about it", or "coffee/mall/talk/dog/want/orange", people get shocked which sometimes embarrasses me, so I monitor my speech when needed.
just saying as someone from outside ny/pa, there are also people like me who find that insanely charming. Let the shocked people experience something new!
embrace it, especially when in the tri state area.
everyone loves a new york accent don't hide it
Monitor your language? Who cares what they think....
Why would it embarrass you? That accent is awesome.
I live in the UK and from now on I'm gonna talk with a NY accent...thats gonna be fun.
Historians say New York accents are basically Cockney and Dublin dialects slowed down. I believe it’s true because my grandparents, all born in Brooklyn and Manhattan, sounded just like Michael Caine in Alfie, or close to it😊Between 1820 and 1860 thousands from London and Liverpool brought their beautiful voices to New York, Boston, and Chicago.
@@mariogiresi6792 sometimes when watching a video, I can’t tell if it’s Irish or American accent until I’ve focused lol they’re pretty similar at times
I think this accent is pretty much dead. It's like each decade the accent gets more and more diluted into the general American accent.
Renovator I hear ya Prison Mike. Wish it stuck around
We watch TV and movies now, so you pick it up from there, but it's still alive. Talk to a NYC construction worker, or some guy from Harlem. They'll tawk the tawk.
@@johnford902 yeah, its very much alive actually. Just listen to NYPD, Firefighters, or just random people in areas which arent "touristy"
Not necessarily. Black new Yorkers have a very very distinct accent that is very heavily influenced from this accent.
you should hear what i sound like. you'd think it's alive and well here in the bronx.
I know of a couple of old timers who still speak this way, there is no such thing as a New York Accent anymore sad to say.
I lived in NYC for 14 years and rarely heard it, but it still pops up. I worked at a Broadway Theater in 2000 and the doorman was a 19-year-old guy raised in Brooklyn and he basically had that accent. It was hard to believe it was real because it sounded like a cartoony "Guys and Dolls" accent. My landlady between 2012-14 had a light version of it.
There are some who most definitely been raised in a family where the accent has been passed down for sure.
Just very rare to hear it , I remember it vividly when I was younger growing up in brooklyn. 33rd and 3rd would definitely be pronounced Toity Toid and Toid. Three would be pronounced Tree,toilet would be pronounced Terlet.
When I do come across someone who still speaks that way it brings back a lot of great memories.
There isnt one single nyc accent, there are however still half a dozen fairly distinct ones. You are right though that new immigrants and transplants (& major media, of course) have greatly shifted and diluted the dialects in nyc. You can still find all over the city large remnants of these accents all the city though.
My girlfriend has a light version of it. We tease each other over our accent as I am from Boston
Actually there is... We are just so used to it we don't realizes it.
One time I wen tout of state and a group of older ladies said we sound like New Yorkers... because to them we sounded different... now..I know for sure Brooklyn has an accent.
My family really talks like this.
I m a romanian , studying acting in the UK and i just watched this vid because i wanna pick up the accent , and use it in a song because i have a little course called : Acting through Song . I m gonna sing and act Sue Me from the play/ movie “Guys and dolls”. Wanna have a chat some time ? 😄
@@codenamegrs9278 lol wut
*tawks
@@codenamegrs9278 also romanian here! Merita o facultate in uk? Cum e traiul acolo? As vrea sa raman acolo dupa facultate. Dar m as duce mai degraba pe america decat uk. Also care sunt posibilitatiile cu actoria sau regia pt romani pe acolo?
@@ilonadragomir1184 parerea mea e ca sunt foarte buni la capitolul predat informatie ( au informatie buna si predau si bine) mai nasol cu societatea rece prin partile alea . Caldura sufleteasca ca la noi la romani mai greu gasesti. Eu m am intors dupa 1 an in tara si nu m am mai dus inapoi. ( iti poti lua 2 ani liber de la facultate in caz de nevoie si iti tin studiile pe pauza) .
Eu lucram part time la footlocker vindeam in magazin si part time la sky la televiziune ca porter( aranjam sali de conferinta, adunam cani de cafea etc. Easy stuff)
Ca si mod de operare : acolo functioneaza tot , autobuzele la timp , institutiile de stat functioneaza foarte bine , etc . Partea materiala e acoperita ca sa zic asa ... mai greu cu spiritualul ( iar asta poate deveni mega drenant pt unii)
Its interesting that many freaked out over the long hair of the beatles in the 60's but look how long the hair was on some of the boys back in the 30's.
It seemed to be ok with kids, especially poor kids. None of the grown men wear their hair that long.
buster keaton in 'the general.'
During the depression, most boys in the summer wouldn't get a haircut very often so the family could save money.
Yea the accent is dying put but I still say some words with the accent. Especially talk (toawk) and caught (cowat)
Why is the accent dyeing ?
@@paddysmith461 Liberal multiculturalist dystopia.
@@thatperformer3879 what?
@@thatperformer3879 what year was this meant to be set in ?
@@paddysmith461 1930s
The only way you'll hear something that comes close to these accents is to carry on a conversation with a born and raised NYC fireman or policeman, more of German, or Irish than Italian descent. Mass media, eapecially television, has contributed to its demise. As well as upward mobility and the overall cost of in NYC.
I’ve noticed that with fdny and nypd officers. Why is that?
I’ve read it’s because a lot of outsiders moving into New York and diluting the accent.
Using this for a training video for our production of Newsies. Thanks!
That's italian americans and their classic "mafia" accent. You can see it written in their faces. They still speak that way to this day.
loin, foyst, hoyt. These are things you don't hear any more.
Also goil for girl. Toidy toid street
Much better than the generic english accent today
agreed.
1:29
When your wife doesn't stop calling your name
This made me laugh
It’s like an east English accent mixed in with a general accent
My first 6 years of life I lived on Long Island, (West Islip) and then we moved to Az, where i was told by all the kids that I was saying words wrong. I have since lost my Long Island accent except for once in a blue moon a word will be pronounced with the accent.
Celita G W i went to west islip. What elementary school?
sad
The best accents in the world C
Gimme tree and make em gud
“ gIve me all the money in the till see” .... funny how he gave them 3 cents and they were satisfied with it haha
Back then that was a lot, and they were poor too
Infalation
Probably the only favorite and recognizable part about the New Yorker accent, is when they say “Johnny.”
Well, I’m 27 & Have a decent Brooklyn Accent.
I have definitely been taught to speak differently and proper but at the end of the day, the Brooklyn in me Still comes out, ESPECIALLY if you piss me off!
Hey, i know that you've posted this 6 months ago and you may not be in the mood to hear this, but I feel as if its very important for you to not be... inconvenienced by your accent. I'm from Wyoming and i have a bit of a frontier accent, what with words such as foofaraw & and the deep tone. Its not an issue to speak how your ancestors did, especially in these times of widespread homogeneity (not necessarily being a bad thing, just disallowing states & the people within them to feel unique and individual). I know your accent gets a bad rep, but personally its one of if not the most beautiful accent there is to offer.
@@heffpy3750 as a non American, I think every American should be proud of their accent, whatever it may be. I think they’re all great. So much diversity in accents across a single country.
"I gotta git tu woyk."
-The Penguin
Ha… I guess that’s how I sound 🤌🏻. I Took My Brooklyn ass to LA and all I was asked to do is talk 🤷🏻♂️
Mr. Malcom is the only one who speaks like this
The accent you hear in this film IS DEAD and BURIED. And before anyone questions me, I'm saying the accent in this film is STRESSED to the point of exaggeration when comparing it to modern times. I've never heard this continued accent in Brooklyn There are still HINTS of it left but NOT LIKE THIS - I have hints of this accent in my speech, but I never met someone from Brooklyn who speaks the way the actors in the film do sentence to sentence to the point where it's even a close match - and NO, I'm not talking about hipsters, yuppies or transplants - I'm talking about natives and true blue New Yorkers who spent their time in the borough - from those that became professionals in the work force to those who used to fight for their neighborhoods. Maybe they did talk like this in the 30's and 40's but not from the mid 80's on where I had the maturity to remember such things. Hints YES and some resemblance, but even if the "kids" in the scene are real Brooklyn boys from that era - that continued word to word, sentence to sentence accent is long gone.
I think you're right, but while I lived in New York I heard hints of it. When I first moved to NYC in 2000 I worked as an usher at a Broadway theater and the doorman had the accent. It was so strong that he sounded like a character from GUYS AND DOLLS. I was mostly struck by the fact that it wasn't just from the movies. Few times did I run into an accent that strong. Harpo Marx's son talked about his dad's accent as being that strong--the brothers grew up in the very neighborhood where DEAD END is placed.
@@MichaelDJ68 Funny, I'm reading your reply and I hear 2:30 (Fa nutten or "for nothing") and I think - I say it the exact same way - lol.
Umm actually they cast New York street kids
@@libertypotter310 What does casting NYC street kids in a 30's - 40's movie have to do with anything I said?
The Brooklyn accent they speak was common prewar , but you're right, the accent has died out. Folks that did have the accent were looked down upon
I'm French, and my teacher said that I have the New York old accent... Is that something good? 😅
@@MFbaZz OH? Well that's great cause I'm actually pansexuel 😂👍🏻🏳️🌈
yes
Yes!
It’s interesting that you should say this because my grandmother was French and my grandfather was from the Southside of Chicago and my mother who was born if France was often asked if she was from New York because of the way she spoke.
@@andreajanota6258 that’s cool
Ya gotta get a quarta, see?
"Soych 'em" fucking killed me hahahahaha
lol i say quarter like that still. kwata 😂
I'm guessing this is the accent used for Annie the musical
Movies and TV tend to exaggerate and distort accents. I grew up in Flushing and Fran Drescher's The Nanny did NOT even come close. There is no one New York accent, but the ones we have or had were similar.
These kids were New Yorkers--hired because they were authentically what they were supposed to be. They had a nice long run thanks to that accent. I only knew one guy in New York who truly talked like those kids. He was a stage door guy on Broadway.
i’m tryna figure out how my grandpa probably sounded cuz he was born and raised in the bronx
omg they all sound the same like they all have the same voice and personality
Streets was tough back then
People should talk like this instead that crappy valley girl accent
Agreed
Loin a Nu Yawk accent in turlet
Some people in NYC still have an accent. I have an accent bcuz any state I go to they know I'm from nyc.
I didn't hear the accent very much working and living in the theatre district, but I knew a young 19 year old stage door guy who had the accent. It was so much like an old movie that it seemed like he was putting it on. Nope, it was real.
@@MichaelDJ68 gotta go to Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
is these steve rogers and bucky's original accent?
I would say yes, though in the movie, Steve seems to have a standard American accent.
@@MichaelDJ68 I can sorta understand why, its a very distinct accent!
WWII movies characters sound like this
Did they yse the F word in these days ?
This is ancient new york accent.
Pretty much, although I did work with a Broadway stage door guy who talked like they do in this video, so it's not quite dead.
the way im only here because we're performing Newsies
This is perfect dialect research for NEWSIES.
Do kids still catch fire flies there in the summer?
See?
Is that jerry lewis?
Yep
What’s the name of this movie
Dead End
LOL "NO KID NO KID NO KID"
Qwaarta
They sound like a bunch of looney toons character
@Fred McGregor okay McGregor
That's because the classic looney tunes were made when this accent was still alive.
@Abhishek Dhungel, What did his last name have to do with anything, would a white last name justify his comment? But yes, they do indeed sound funny (indeed much like looney toon characters of old, and no wonder, b/c they ARE from of old) not to say it out of offense. It's for that reason that I came to this video to hear them have conversation like it was nothing (no accent training or anything, it was completely genuine).
Bugs Bunny was from Brooklyn and grew up in the 1930s. :-)
This accent is hilarious
it is extremely nice and charming. Not funny for me.
Nobody speaks like that anymore.
Yeah that’s why they call it the “old” New York accent
This is like
Los Olvidados from NYC
Its sad to read that youse guys dont have people talkin this way
Sad you only hear this accent in old folks
I did know a stage door guy at a Broadway theatre who had the accent and he was only 19. A few others had a light version, but his sounded like the Dead End Kids. Still, it's definitely fading.
@@MichaelDJ68 dang
My fam ain’t even from New York and has a New York accent 😅
tf
probably from the tri state or in the northeast then.
What year was this meant to be in ? 1940s?
The movie was released in 1937.
@@MichaelDJ68 so it was set in its time ? 1937 ? Or meant to be like form the 1920s?
@@paddysmith461 Set in its time. The Broadway play ran with those same kids in it, opening in 1935, running for two years and then they made the movie version.
@@MichaelDJ68 ok Quality. And is this is how New York was in them days? The kids spoke like this ect ? Would they be italian-American ? Or Irish’s America?
@@paddysmith461 Probably they were a mixed bunch, but the neighborhood depicted is the upper East Side as it was transforming into a rich neighborhood. This story represents the last generation of working class poor who lived there along the East River. Harpo Marx referred to the accent, which he and his brothers had, as the East 90th Street New York accent.
WAAAAAAAAAAAT!?
Accent Too thick...damn
No offense to anyone, but there is ONLY one other accent I CANNOT stand, New York & Australian......YIKES !!!!
🤷🏾♂️
thats rude.
2:49 is that a girl?
Because his hair is longer? He's actor Bobby Jordan. His hair was uncharacteristically grown out for the time, but he wore it shorter in later films.