A sad tangent: My wife's parents, both born and raised in Brooklyn during the Depression, both raised by Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrant jews, have the most pronounced Brooklyn accents among my acquaintances -- my father-in-law says "idear" for idea, for example -- But even they don't say "boid" for bird, or "toity-toid" for thirty-third. Those regional accents are dying out
Me, I'm a Long Island (or Lawn Guyland) kid, raised by California transplants; I've been told I sound more California than LI.
But yeah. I like Thundaboids!
