Water, Call, Mall, Fall, Buttafuoco

So I have been wanting to talk about talking.  And my apparent need to fit in.  The other day, I said “gimme a cawl.”  Really, am I a parrot?  Is the next step an affair with a married auto mechanic?  Newsday had a great article (they have those!) on the roots of the LI accent.  Knowing it has European origins HELPS, right?

R, another downstate Rochester exile, and pregnant, is terrified of how this baby will eventually tawlk.  Agreed.