From K-QED.

When you think about America's biggest cities, many have a recognizable accent.

From the shifting vowels of Chicago to the dropped rs of New York, like you'll hear in this Joan Rivers clip.

When I was 21, my mother said only a doctor for you.

When I was 22, she said, all right, a lawyer, CPA.

24, she said, we'll grab a dentist. 26, she said we'll grab a dentist 26 she said anything. Now if you ask people for an

example of a San Francisco accent some might say it sounds like this.

Tough Tony from the Petrera.

That's out of Mark, it's on the slot, whatever.

That's where you picked up that accent, eh?

Right.

Yeah.

At Brog.

The Mission Brog accent is on full display in this 1985 interview with Tough Tony.

He was a San Francisco bus driver.

They used to ask me, you know, and when I left them off at the transfer point, are you from Brooklyn?

I says, no, I'm not from Brooklyn, I'm from Sada Market.

But Native San Franciscans have a lot of ways of speaking.

The campaign is over and it is time for us to forget about the drama that existed in the world of politics during...

That was the thing that made me want to play was rock and roll.

When I heard Chuck Berry and all the great rock and roll licks and just the sound...

I was like so poor for so long and struggling as a comic that like I just that was Mayor London Breed

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