Locust Valley Lockjaw is the colloquial term for a stereotypical upper classAmerican accent especially identified with members of the New EnglandWASP aristocracy. Named for the Locust Valley region of Long Island's affluent Gold Coast, the accent is typified by a controlled, somewhat monotonous manner of speech pronounced with the teeth slightly clenched and the lower jaw thrust forward. Individuals who have been described as affecting a recognizable lockjaw accent include U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, actress Katharine Hepburn, television personality Martha Stewart, and Thurston Howell III, the millionaire character on the television series Gilligan's Island. Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... American, when used as an adjective, can mean of the United States of America or of or relating to the Americas; when used as a noun, United States citizen, residing in the Americas, or less frequently American English. Immigrants to the United States are usually called first-generation Americans, regardless... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Families See text. ... This article is about Long Island in New York State. ... The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Islands northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. ... This is the most common use of FDR. For other uses, see FDR (disambiguation). ... Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a notable American film and stage actress. ... Martha Stewart Martha Stewart (born August 3, 1941) is a popular American television and magazine personality known for her cooking, gardening, etiquette, and arts and crafts projects, and as a general lifestyle guide and homemaker. ... Thurston Howell III was the name of a character on the 1960s television show Gilligans Island. ... Gilligans Island was an American TV sitcom which aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967. ...
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There is the aforementioned Henry Winter; the beautiful (and very close) southern twins Charles and Camilla Macaulay; the rich, thin, elegant neurasthenic Francis Abernathy.
And then there is the doomed Bunny, Edmund Corcoran, a big "sloppy blond boy, rosy-cheeked and gum-chewing, with a relentlessly cheery demeanor" and a loud, honking voice with a Locust Valley-lockjaw upper-crust accent.
Bunny is the sole nonintellectual in the bunch - in the end, in a way, this is why he is singled out and dispensed with - but otherwise he fits right in.
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