NEW YORK - Real New Yorkers tend to have a distinctive way of speaking. But some believe "New York English" may disappearing. "Some of the features that have been traditionally associated with New York City English are diminishing," explained Michael Newman, a professor of linguistics and chair of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College of the City University of New York. "We're still different.
When you go somewhere else, you get off a plane, people don't sound the same." Newman says, over time, newcomers -- especially in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn -- are diluting the sound of the New York City dialect. "The younger generation, between Gen Z and the millennials, it's been falling off pretty rapidly," he continued.