A dying race- two Boston Brahmins converse - American Tongues Episode #8

Is this the way Bostonians talked a hundred years ago?  See more at http://bit.ly/amtongues

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Two amusing gentlemen of the old school conversing at the Boston Athaneum, and affording us a rare listen at classic upper-class Boston speech circa 1986. From the Peabody Award winning documentary by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.

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