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Were New Yorkers Always Seen as Fast-Talking and Rude?
By artappraiser on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:35pm |By Michael Pollack, F.Y.I. column @ New York Times, October 28/29,2011
Q. Is it true that New Yorkers were considered fast-talking and rude as far back as the 1700s?
A. “Of course it’s true!” said Michael Miscione, Manhattan’s borough historian....
He referred to Adams’s entry in his diary....
Then there was Thomas Jefferson....
Britain didn’t help matters by appointing colonial governors like Robert H. Morris.....
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/nyregion/were-new-yorkers-always-seen-as-fast-talking-and-rude.html
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