John is traveling this week and so we’re running a previous episode about the speech patterns of Bette Davis, George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong and countless other Americans of the 1930s. Why do they all sound like that?
Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?