Words pronounced differently (in early tv and movies)
One isn't really a word. It's the phrase "at all." But it's pronounced "at tall." I hear this in some early movies (30s, 40s) but notice it more regularly on early tv show like Father Knows Best.
The word I notice most often is "suspect." I put the accent on "sus" but early movies (like the Thin Man series) always pronounce it with the accent on "spect."
Have you noticed others?
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Both of them employed this Mid-Atlantic accent... I never considered that these other odd pronunciations might have found their genesis there as well!
Thanks! 
(And welcome to DU!)
My grandpa did the same actually. Not British.
It's also easier to say
Maybe a generational thing? But it was odd that he was the only one I ever heard pronounce it that way.
My father grew up in a home where English was not spoken. He had to learn it when he went to school, so maybe that was the way the word was taught back then.
I didn't really think of that until I bought this absolutely delightful book, "There Is No Zoo in Zoology: And Other Beastly Mispronunciations" by Charles Harrington Elster. He wrote a second book, "Is There a Cow in Moscow?" Both are good. The first was exceptional.
https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Zoo-Zoology-Mispronunciations/dp/0020318308
Example: He discusses how the word despicable used to be pronounced DES-pic-a-ble with the accent on the first syllable, & then along came a silly, cartoon duck who changed the way we say an entire series of words.
DES-pic-a-ble became de-SPIC-a-ble
FORM-id-a-ble became for-MID-a-ble
IR-rev-o-ca-ble became ir-re-VOC-a-ble
Fascinating book if you're into that type of thing.
