All 5 Uses of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
in
Do You Speak American?
- The speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a New Yorker, illustrates the admired and widely imitated earlier style.†
Chpt 3 *Franklin Delano Roosevelt = 32nd President of the United States -- let the country through The Great Depression & World War II
- FDR's speech was the model of an international English standard derived from the British Received Pronunciation that took its form in London, at the beginning of the nineteenth century.†
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- FDR had the prestige pattern of the upper class in New York.†
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- FDR did not pronounce "r"s after vowels, so that storm sounded like stom and fear like feah.†
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- William Labov points out that FDR also pronounced the "t"s in words such as utter and shattering in the British way, not blurring the "t"s almost into "d"s [udder and shaddering) as many of his countrymen did, and do.†
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Definition:
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)