[916] in Humor
HUMOR: A Bostonian Pronunciation Guide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Jun 12 10:40:59 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:34:57 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:50:54 -0700
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: scott_schroeder@ins.com (Scott Schroeder)
The Boston Globe had a lexicon for people learning to speak with a "Bawstin"
accent. The following contains some of the better excerpts.
The funniest thing of all is that people really do talk like this out
here!!!
Pahty : A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with
Mother Nature.
ah: The letter between "q" & "s."
ahnt: Sistah of your fathah or muthah.
bah: Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a
bah cah."
bayah: Ferocious brown or black animal.
beah: Malt beverage.
bon: As in: "Where were you bon?"
bzah: Strange, odd.
Chahlz: The rivah.
chowdah: Clams, milk, buttah.
Con: Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.
connah: Where streets intersect.
fah: Not neah heah
fok: What you eat pahster with.
fyah: Blaze
Gahden: What they're tearing down this yeah.
hahbah: What they dumped tea into in 1773.
Hahvid: Country day school across the rivah.
hahf-ahst: Done without regahd to detail.
heah: Done with the eahs. "Listen my children, and you shall
heah/of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah."
khakis: What you staht the cah with.
nawtheastah: Stawm that blows in from the wottah.
Noo Yok: Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street.
owah: Sixty minutes.
pahk: Cahn't do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown eithah.
pahster: spaghetti, ziti, etc.
pastah: The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.
pichahs: They throw fastballs at Fenway.
Rawjah: He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway.
Reveah: He rode through Ahlington on a hiss shouting "To Ahms!"
shuah: of course
shot: not tall.
wof: A peeah, jutting into the hahbah.
wottah: H2O
yeah: A 365 day period.
yiz: you, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin down to the Cape
tammorah?"
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