Word: krapp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suppose, says Teacher Levine, that a lot of Brooklynites do say lawr, sawr, drawring, Jerly, Aurgurst and ersters. As far back as 1919, says Levine, a certain Professor Krapp showed in a learned work that New Englanders do pretty much the same thing with r's. They say winder for window, Banner for Hannah, piazzer, Noar, chawrk and dawrg, James Russell Lowell is another case in point: "A mournful providence fashioned us holler," wrote the poet, "on purpose that we might our principles swaller...