Bush's way a speakin' (#45110)
by Chris Daly on October 24, 2004 at 6:03 PM

I find it remarkable that Bush sounds like such a cowboy when he was born in New Haven, Conn., to parents who speak classic New England preppie American English.
As a teenager, Bush went to prep school himself, in Andover, Mass. He plunged further into the heart of the Eastern Establishment with stops in New Haven (again) and Cambridge, Mass.
It is also worth nothing that his brother Jeb does not speak like a cowboy (I cannot recall hearing Neil speak), and their sister Nancy Bush Ellis certainly doesn't.
So, you have to wonder: How in tarnation did that feller end up talkin' that way?

Chris Daly
Boston