Boston Accent

[rosarugosa]

I feel so special, not to mention smart and annoying:

https://whdh.com/news/boston-accent-...BnhFOnvzE2Szow

[catherine]

Oh, cool, you have a Boston accent, rosa? I love that accent! In fact, I find regional accents and dialects to be SO interesting and fun!

I scanned the article, and I'm wondering what they mean by New York accent? And where is "Standard American" in the list? If course I feel that that's what I have--I have only a few tell-tale signs that I grew up in New England, like saying "awnt" and not "ant" for "aunt. And I say "merry," "Mary," and "marry" exactly the same way--the vowel sounds are identical.

And speaking of New York, I have my own pet hypothesis on how we diverged from the British in terms of accents. When I went to the Netherlands I noticed they sound a lot like Americans when they speak English. So my theory is that when the Dutch were settled in the New York area and intermingled with the British colonialists, the sounds of the Dutch vowels and some consonants were transposed onto the English and they merged. Anyway, just my theory.

Fun article. My favorite accents in the US are Boston and Midwest (Minnesota). Least favorite is Baltimore/Philadlephia and, of course, Joisey.

Thanks for sharing!

[LDAHL]

I spent a few years there, and it seemed to me there were three or four Boston accents. You heard Southie spoken in Charlestown. The Cape and Back Bay accent sounded like Mass politicians on CSPAN. North of town you heard kind of a Downeaster way of stretching out certain words. And as you got closer to Providence, they sounded more New York.

[Alan]

I worked with someone from Boston for a few years, he had the Southie accent we midwesterners were most likely to hear on Saturday Night Live skits from a few years ago. He thought our bland midwestern accents made us sound like hicks, and wasn't shy about telling us so. lol

[LDAHL]

I worked with someone from Boston for a few years, he had the Southie accent we midwesterners were most likely to hear on Saturday Night Live skits from a few years ago. He thought our bland midwestern accents made us sound like hicks, and wasn't shy about telling us so. lol

I have always found New England to be far and away the snobbiest region of the country. I’m not sure why that would be.

[Teacher Terry]

No matter where I live people know I am from Wisconsin.

[rosarugosa]

I have always found New England to be far and away the snobbiest region of the country. I’m not sure why that would be.

Because we are the best and we know it, lol.

[rosarugosa]

Oh, cool, you have a Boston accent, rosa? I love that accent! In fact, I find regional accents and dialects to be SO interesting and fun!

I scanned the article, and I'm wondering what they mean by New York accent? And where is "Standard American" in the list? If course I feel that that's what I have--I have only a few tell-tale signs that I grew up in New England, like saying "awnt" and not "ant" for "aunt. And I say "merry," "Mary," and "marry" exactly the same way--the vowel sounds are identical.

And speaking of New York, I have my own pet hypothesis on how we diverged from the British in terms of accents. When I went to the Netherlands I noticed they sound a lot like Americans when they speak English. So my theory is that when the Dutch were settled in the New York area and intermingled with the British colonialists, the sounds of the Dutch vowels and some consonants were transposed onto the English and they merged. Anyway, just my theory.

Fun article. My favorite accents in the US are Boston and Midwest (Minnesota). Least favorite is Baltimore/Philadlephia and, of course, Joisey.

Thanks for sharing!

I've been told I have a wicked Boston accent. I pronounce car keys the same as khakis, and scented the same as centered. When I saw a Bahaba t-shirt on vacation one time, I was surprised that there is apparently another way to pronounce it. People from the south cannot always understand what I'm saying (their loss, lol - sorry, just being a wise-ass).

[herbgeek]

When I first moved to Massachusetts at 17, I was completely bewildered by terms like bubbla and tawnic (translation: bubbler= water fountain and tonic meaning soda, respectively). It was like I entered a foreign country and I was only moving one state over from Connecticut. LOL.

[LDAHL]

No matter where I live people know I am from Wisconsin.

Go to the “Manitowoc Minute” website and check out the Midwest Language Translator. Or Midwestern Siri.