Addendum: A Brahmin accent doesn't actually sound like that. About half of it is attitude, a bit of it is pace, some of it is aspiration, and the Hs where the Rs should be tend to be more drawn out. Moreover, A is often a drawn out Ahhh (baaahth) and W changes. Brahmin won't add an R to the end of a word which ends in a vowel and is followed by a word beginning with a vowel. No doubt there are aspects that, because I was too close to it, I cannot hear.

I put this in the wrong place; silly me. I'm actually not a Brahmin; but my high school, the oldest school in this hemisphere – Harvard was founded to give our first graduating class a place to go, pounded the Brahmin accent into me. At this point I am accentless until I go home. At the first toll booth on the Mass Pike it comes flooding back.

So as a Boston brahmin, sir, do you indeed say "cah, doag, and pahk"? =)

Actually, as "a political refugee and defector from the People's Republic of Massachusetts", how do you find the more laid-back speech patterns of Virginia?

Bostonians of proper upbringing and education not only speak English, we speak better English than the English do, an English closer to Shakespeare's than England speaks today, and we speak it with the non-rhotic accent that was very likely the most English accent prior to RP.

Harrumph.