Share your favorite Boston/New England Slang/Colloquialism

marmadaddy - 2010-12-20 3:55 AM It's not slang. The rest of the country just doesn't speak proper English.

marmadaddy - 2010-12-20 3:55 AM It's not slang. The rest of the country just doesn't speak proper English.

jonathan.evitts - 2010-12-19 4:52 PM



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.

pga_mike - 2010-12-19 1:22 PM Bubbler (pr bubblah) - Water Fountain

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.  

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.  

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.  

jldicarlo - 2010-12-19 11:24 PM This thread really makes me want a grinder.....

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Want a Dell's with that?

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.

KOM - 2010-12-19 11:47 AM

Jeet?

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.

ras26 - 2010-12-20 9:13 AM

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."