Share your favorite Boston/New England Slang/Colloquialism (Page 3)

I still use "jimmies" for ice cream, not sprinkles. and my dad still has a bunch of the old-school Awful Awful glasses.. like getting a milkshake in a Big Gulp glass. I thought they were from Friendly's though.

I loved the summers spent in "Fawxburra" and Needham with g'parents.  Candlepin bowling was the best... 3 balls, it was like skeeball on crack.

Awww, Jimmies bring me right back to my days working at Brighams...sigh...

The funniest expression I used to hear was from my friends from Newton Coa-nah - "yunt, mush"  which is loosely translated using the Google translator as "right on, buddy".  Have never heard it anywhere else- it was just a wicked popula colloquialism.

Contrary to what many think there, is but one way to pronounce these words below.   They are not actually colloquialisms but rather have their deepest roots in the New England area:

SCALLOP:     right way:  SKOL' up (as if the scallop has the word "call" stuck in the middle of

                                                          it)

                      wrong way:  SKAL' up

QUAHOG:      right way:  QWAH' hog

                       wrong way: KO' hog

the town of Raynham:   There is but one pronunciation for the town of Raynham on the Southshore of Massachusetts:

                       right way:   RAIN HAM  (equal emphasis both syllables - say the word "ham")

                       wrong way:   RAIN' um

                      (above:  the same rules hold true for the towns of Stoneham,  Eastham, and    

                      Wareham)    One hundred and fifty years ago Chatham was pronounced "CHAT                         HAM (again equal emphasis both syllables) -  indeed some old timers (natives

                      to the town) pronounce it that way to this day.

I assure you not all Bostonians use those words.   And yet we still manage to drop our "r"s and say "QUINZY" for Quincy.

Not in Cleveland

Steamers is one kind of clams.  Not all clams are steamers.

been back in NY for a year, and love the looks I get whenever I say 'wicked' - everyone looks at me and then remembers that I lived in Boston for 13 years....

of course the Red Sox cap/jacket/sweatshirt.... could be a giveaway.

edited as I'd posted the exact same comment last month, and didn't realize it.

Wicked bummah.