Share your favorite Boston/New England Slang/Colloquialism
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Bubbler (pr bubblah) - Water Fountain Wicked - Excellent Wicked pisser (pr pissah) - Awesome Edited by pga_mike 2010-12-19 1:42 PM |
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Elite ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() My favorite since I started working for a company that is based there;
"what da F*** does DAT have to do wid anyt'ing!?" |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() marmadaddy - 2010-12-20 3:55 AM It's not slang. The rest of the country just doesn't speak proper English. |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() marmadaddy - 2010-12-20 3:55 AM It's not slang. The rest of the country just doesn't speak proper English. This. Also, even though I haven't lived in/around Boston in seven or eight years, I still use wicked all the time and if I drink a little too much the people around me begin to have issues understanding what I'm saying. Edited by jonathan.evitts 2010-12-19 3:53 PM |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() I used to live in Rhode Island and the accents made my ears bleed. Most grating to me was the "idears" people talked about. Also - I never knew how to pronounce most of the towns. Coweset - Cow-e-set is what it looked like to me instead of Co - we - set. And I remember confusing people by calling the governor Car-see-ari instead of Ca-cheer- e but that may just be my bad Italian pronunciation. There are others that I can't remember right now, but there were many times when I would just look at my coworkers and wonder what the heck they were talking about. I'm from PA though, so it was a whole new language up there. Start talking about the Stillers and throwing a yinz in there and I'm right at home. |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Just git me a frappe ya jag off! (Mixing slang between regions) |
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Master ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() jonathan.evitts - 2010-12-19 4:52 PM marmadaddy - 2010-12-20 3:55 AM It's not slang. The rest of the country just doesn't speak proper English. This. Also, even though I haven't lived in/around Boston in seven or eight years, I still use wicked all the time and if I drink a little too much the people around me begin to have issues understanding what I'm saying. Jonathan wrote word for word what I was about to... That's what a few years living around Concord/Maynard will do to ya. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() pga_mike - 2010-12-19 1:22 PM Bubbler (pr bubblah) - Water Fountain Actually, this originated in Wisconsin, thank you very much. Oh, and we pronounce it correctly. Edited by maggyruth 2010-12-19 6:27 PM |
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Master ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() They have recently installed a bunch of rotaries in the town next to mine - people look at me crazy when I use that term, apparently they are round-a-bouts or traffic circles... |
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Royal(PITA) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() mll1605 - 2010-12-19 4:48 PM I used to live in Rhode Island and the accents made my ears bleed. Most grating to me was the "idears" people talked about. Also - I never knew how to pronounce most of the towns. Coweset - Cow-e-set is what it looked like to me instead of Co - we - set. And I remember confusing people by calling the governor Car-see-ari instead of Ca-cheer- e but that may just be my bad Italian pronunciation. There are others that I can't remember right now, but there were many times when I would just look at my coworkers and wonder what the heck they were talking about. I'm from PA though, so it was a whole new language up there. Start talking about the Stillers and throwing a yinz in there and I'm right at home. my in laws live near Harrisburg, it's you'ns but pronounced more like you-ens |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() mll1605 - 2010-12-19 5:48 PM I used to live in Rhode Island and the accents made my ears bleed. Most grating to me was the "idears" people talked about. Also - I never knew how to pronounce most of the towns. Coweset - Cow-e-set is what it looked like to me instead of Co - we - set. And I remember confusing people by calling the governor Car-see-ari instead of Ca-cheer- e but that may just be my bad Italian pronunciation. There are others that I can't remember right now, but there were many times when I would just look at my coworkers and wonder what the heck they were talking about. I'm from PA though, so it was a whole new language up there. Start talking about the Stillers and throwing a yinz in there and I'm right at home. Amherst: silent h Billerica: BILL'rica, not Bil-LER-rica Haverhill: HAV'rill, not Haver-hill Leominster: Le-MINS-ter, not LEO-mins-ter Salisbury: SALS-bury, not Sal-lis-bury Worcester: WOOSter Just to name a few. |
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Champion![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Yeah, I lived in "Leminster" for over 20 years so I know from where you speak. And by the way, "Worcester" is pronounced "Wistah"! Yep, I get tagged here in Arizona right off for having that New England accent, even before I "pahk my cah in the yahd." And there are no rotaries out here, only roundabouts. You don't hear it much any more, but back in the 1950's, if you wanted a soda, you said "tonic" instead. I haven't heard that used in at least 50 years though. |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() I forgot about Worchester. I don't know how you get Wooster out of that. There's a Wooster, OH, that is actually spelled and pronounced as Wooster. |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() "My boy's wicked smaaht." |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() from those 3 years I lived in Conquered, NH - remember some wicked-good ones tawnic duck-pin bowling - WTF! dickies then there is the whole hot bun thing or every single set of driving directions begin with "you can't get there from he-year" @ Cheers, Buckets of Beers. (apparently they didn't like serving pitchers of beer) I had a classmate from P-bud-e (all one syllable) best we could tell, he meant Peabody.
many more, but too many Buckets of Beers to remember...
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() mll1605 - 2010-12-19 4:48 PM I used to live in Rhode Island and the accents made my ears bleed. Most grating to me was the "idears" people talked about. Also - I never knew how to pronounce most of the towns. Coweset - Cow-e-set is what it looked like to me instead of Co - we - set. And I remember confusing people by calling the governor Car-see-ari instead of Ca-cheer- e but that may just be my bad Italian pronunciation. There are others that I can't remember right now, but there were many times when I would just look at my coworkers and wonder what the heck they were talking about. I'm from PA though, so it was a whole new language up there. Start talking about the Stillers and throwing a yinz in there and I'm right at home. Don't go insinuating that Pittsburgh and Harrisburg are part of the same state as Philly. There's Southeast PA and the rest is Pennsyltucky. As far as New England slang, Wicked is... well, wicked. |
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Master ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() jldicarlo - 2010-12-19 11:24 PM This thread really makes me want a grinder..... <<<< Want a Dell's with that? |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() mll1605 - 2010-12-19 9:26 PM I forgot about Worchester. I don't know how you get Wooster out of that. There's a Wooster, OH, that is actually spelled and pronounced as Wooster. Ah... there is no "h" in Worcester. I came to MA for college and stayed. Apparently I have acquired some of the MA/New England slangss. Once I clocked a personal best bike times at a race. I mentioned in my race report "... best bike split evah!" and got many comments about how I had turned into a "true Mass-hole".... |
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Master ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() KOM - 2010-12-19 11:47 AM Jeet? No - ju? wicked pissah is one of my favorites. I still remember when we first moved here, I felt like I needed a translator. I guess that's what happens when you are "from away". |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() D.K. - 2010-12-19 7:42 PM Amherst: silent h Billerica: BILL'rica, not Bil-LER-rica Haverhill: HAV'rill, not Haver-hill Leominster: Le-MINS-ter, not LEO-mins-ter Salisbury: SALS-bury, not Sal-lis-bury Worcester: WOOSter Just to name a few. You forgot Glouchester: Gl-aw-stah I went to boarding school out there, coming from Montana. Try taking trigonometry and having the teacher talk about "alpher" and "bater" as greek characters. I'd also debate that "wicked" isn't limited to "excellent." It's often used to describe any extreme, eg, "wicked cold out there." |
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Champion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Local only to Warwick, RI (that's pronounced "warrik" and is 1 syllable): Shuahh= sure. Usually in a lilting voice from a gum chomping waitress. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() ras26 - 2010-12-20 9:13 AM D.K. - 2010-12-19 7:42 PM Amherst: silent h Billerica: BILL'rica, not Bil-LER-rica Haverhill: HAV'rill, not Haver-hill Leominster: Le-MINS-ter, not LEO-mins-ter Salisbury: SALS-bury, not Sal-lis-bury Worcester: WOOSter Just to name a few. You forgot Glouchester: Gl-aw-stah I went to boarding school out there, coming from Montana. Try taking trigonometry and having the teacher talk about "alpher" and "bater" as greek characters. I'd also debate that "wicked" isn't limited to "excellent." It's often used to describe any extreme, eg, "wicked cold out there." Haha.. there is no "h" in Gloucester either. No wonder people are getting so confused. It's Worcester, Gloucester, not --chester like Rochester. Oh.. when Bostonians omit the "r" in some words the r's have to go somewhere. So it becomes "alpher", "bater" and "idear". Oh, and "soder". I learned that "wicked" can use to modify anything. "Wicked good", 'Wicked bad"... all acceptable. |
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