I visited New York City on winter break. My friends and I crowded in Times Square to hopefully watch the ball drop, but arriving six hours early was only enough to get us six blocks away, where the ball looked like a tiny dot. Anyways, we all consulted talking like a New Yorker while we were there. We are all from Ohio and probably sound more like hicks than any New Yorker. The one thing that everyone knew was that they didn’t pronounce their r’s. When I think of people in New York, I think of the rich businessmen who make millions of dollars a year. It is not a surprise that those upper-class people were looking up to the people in London. Thus, New Yorkers borrowed their pronunciation of words to make their own dialect and sound like the elite.
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