Coney Island and There-a-bouts

To learn their foreign language doesn't come with ease
Only natives of the Isle of Coney speak this Brooklyn-eze
Their parents they refer to as "dare fodders" and "dare mudders"
While sibling male rivals are "dare olda bigga brudders"
Sophisticates in Manhattan refer to "these" and "those"
But in Brooklyn-eze their counterparts are known as "Deeze" and "Doze
Brooklyn-eze, they claim is derived from the English language
Most British folk react to this with cockneyed English anguish
But Brooklyn-ites don't give a hoot, they love their Brooklyn-eze
They'll go on speaking as they please, including "Doze" and "Deeze"

by Stan Cooper...4/3/10 graphic by Don Hunt




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Written on 2010-04-10 at 19:03

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shells
The beauty of language, it is constantly evolving, I love accents and Brooklyn-eze I should like to hear.
2010-04-11


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
PS: Both Merry England and Dreamland , both clost now . Both burnt down , scandalous roumers say due to arson.
Ken
2010-04-11


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
This reminds me of '' Merry England '' in my own town, but most of all '' Dreamland '' , Margate. Similar to Coney Island , tho much smaller of course .
As fore the local English , reminds me of a time whent I went up north. While their , I went to a fish & chip shop with the son of my fathers best pal ( replasee due to TV by 'mate'' ). I orders a pease of rig , a local word fore rock samon. The chipy , ackted that he did not know what I was ordering. I know what he was thinking. I tuernde to the lad I was with , and asked him to translaite what the cipipy was saying. The chipy then ask the lad to tranlite what I had saide. A tripole acket was bourn. The que of custermers grew and grew. But no one complaide , they were being entertained by us , fore fre all it cost was a bit of their time , time well spent. Dialect , use of words , is wonderful. Sadly due to the T V , much of this is being lost.
Ken
2010-04-11


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
My father was born in England but as his mother was spanish and I'm part russian french lol you name it - I have no idea, I have had to speak english for the last 21 years and I still have difficulties but I now have difficulties in my native tongue too - Its dialect my grandfather spoke a form of french that to a frenchman is neer impossible lol - aint great though, I like this Stan because of the ethinology of it all, languages, dialect - they evolve :-)

Elle x
2010-04-10



I lived in Manhattan for about 15 years, but only went to Coney Island once. I think the famous amusement park there is closed now.

They really do talk like that in Brooklyn--just like in "Welcome Back Kotter." My favorite was how they pluralized the word "you" into "yous." Such as "What yous guys doin'?" I was surprised to hear people here in southwestern Ohio also doing that. I guess it's kind of the northern USA equivalent of "y'all."

Enjoyable poem.

William
2010-04-10