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There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
Bob's brow was furrowed; his jaw was tense.
The lead story recounts the tense White House countdown to testimony, speculates on how Hillary felt during the ordeal (betrayed, then stalwart), and dissects the legal equivocations in The Speech.
By contrast, it seems calming to Brodkey's voice to find itself in a "true" first person and a lucid present tense.
Front pages and TV pundits now speak of Bradley in the past tense while bubbling with excitement over a Granite State showdown for George W. Bush, Steve Forbes, and McCain.