Brian there on WNYC, and yes, Maraca is back with us now.

You may know him from his work as a CBS Sunday morning correspondent and a frequent

panelist on NPR's weekly quiz show, wait, wait, don't tell me.

And maybe you listen to Mo Bituaries, his podcast about his favorite, dearly departed people

and things, as he describes it.

One of those things is the topic of a recent episode, The Death of an Accent.

Have you heard of the Mid-Atlantic Accent, sometimes called the Transatlantic Accent?

If you don't know that accent by name, you might know it by ear.

Nice speech, but I wouldn't worry too much about your heart.

You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

And that's Betty Davis as Margot Channing and all about Eve, and here's another example.

We just picked the wrong first husbands out there.

Yeah, you can't talk Hollywood history and leave out Catherine Hepburn.

You heard her as Tracy Lorde there for three seconds in the Philadelphia story.

So yeah, we're talking about that old-timey movie star manner of speech heard in the performances

of Giants like Betty Davis, Catherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Carrie Grant.

It's a relic of an older era in Hollywood when movies were called talkies and we'll talk

with Mo about the origins of that accent and why it went away, except apparently in

Kelsey Grammar.

And we'll also spend a few minutes getting into what Mo hopes will die, the things he hopes

will disappear, the topic of another episode of Mobituaries.

And listeners, you can weigh in here what petty annoyances, and we're not talking about

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