The Boston Brahmin accent is a New England accent associated with the Boston Brahmin upper social class. Well known personalities with this accent include: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Katharine Hepburn and William F. Buckley, Jr.. This accent has often been heavily parodied, such as the Thurston J. Howell III character on Gilligan's Island. However, it has been steadily dying out over time. Also known as the Locust Valley Lockjaw, the accent is typified by a clipped manner of speaking pronounced with the teeth slightly clenched and the lower jaw thrust forward. This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Look up Accent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston are a blue-blooded class of New Englanders who claim hereditary or cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and originally settled New England. ... FDR redirects here. ... Hepburn, in a publicity shot for Song of Love Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... William F. Buckley William Frank Buckley Jr. ... Thurston J. Howell III was a character on the CBS television sitcom Gilligans Island, which was in first-run from 1964 to 1967, and has been rerun ever since in syndication. ... The cast of Gilligans Island. ... Locust Valley Lockjaw is the colloquial term for a stereotypical upper class American accent especially identified with members of the New England WASP aristocracy. ...

This accent is separate and distinct from the urban blue collar Boston accent. The Boston accent is the dialect of English not only of the city of Boston, Massachusetts itself, but more generally of all of eastern Massachusetts; it shares much in common with the accents of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, southern Maine, and northeastern Connecticut. ...

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