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The Boston accent drops the R's but saves them up to be reused in another totally inappropriate place.we can't speak an "r" if our life depends on it
runner is runna
Being a native of the Boston metro area (Lexington actually. You know, Minutemen and all that...) I must inquire:
Inappropriate ahs?? Wheya?
humm, ya, well...we can't speak an "r" if our life depends on it
runner is runna
Boston accent drops the R's but saves them up to be reused in another totally inappropriate place.
A Bawstin Lexicon
ah -- The letter between "q" an "s."
ahdery -- Runs through the middle of the city. Ahftah foah o’clock, it’s clogged with cahs .
ahnt -- Sistah of your fathah or muthah. Also: are not
bah -- Serves beah and hahd likkah: The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah.
bayah -- Ferocious brown or black animal.
beah -- Malt beverage; e.g., Gansett.
bon -- As in: Where were you bon? I was bon in J.P.
Bawstin cream pie -- A frosted layah cake.
Broons -- Professional hockey team, named after bayahs.
Buljah -- President of the state Senate. Likes the guvnah; does not like Howie Cah.
bzah -- Strange, odd: The Stuart case was bzah.
cahdnal -- Oversees the Ahchdiasis of Bawstin. If speaker is over 50, refers to Richard Cushing.
Chahlie -- He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Bawstin. Last seen rumblin’ through Leechmeah; now needs 80 cents to get off thtrain.
Chahlz -- The rivah; take the MTA across.
chowdah -- Clams, milk, buttah Only a Noo Yokka (e.g., a chowdahead) puts tomatoes in it.
con -- Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob. ‘The Pilgrims stole the Indians’ seed con to get through the wintah of 1621.
connah -- Where streets intersect; e.g., Fields, Uphams.
Dappab -- The city councilah most likely to drop by at your wake.
Dot -- Short for Dotchesta. Mahky Mahk, the rappah, grew up neah Dot Ave.
Emeffay -- The Museum of Fine Ahts.
Evacuation Day -- When the redcoats left. Same date as St. Patrick’s Day; a legal holiday if you work in City Hall
fah -- Not neah heah: Chiner is fah from Needum.
fayah -- What life is not.
fok -- What you eat pahster with.
frappe -- Milk, ice cream, and syrup mixed together. Take out the ice cream, and it’s a milkshake.
fyah -- Blaze: The Great Fya of 1872 reduced a lahge paht of Bawstin to cindahs.
gahbidge -- What they used to dump in the hahbah.
Gahden -- What they’re tearing down this yeah.
guvnah -- Chief exeeutive of the commonwealth.
hahbah -- What the Sonsalibidy dumped the tea into in 1773. To find it, walk east until your hat floats.
hahlakwin -- A blend of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream, served at pahties.
Hahnsbagah -- Attorney general; the man who would be guvoals.
Hahvid -- Country day school across the rivak The guvnah went there. So did Hahshbagah. Not the mayah, though.
hahf-ahst -- Done without regard to detail
heah -- Done with the eaha Listen, my children, and you shall heah Of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah. Also: not thayah
hoss -- Equine quadruped. Runs at Suffick.
Howahya -- How are you?
Ianeah -- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
khakis -- What you staht the cah with.
mayah -- Chief executive of the city. Used to be Irish, before the Irish moved to Milton. James Michael Curley was the mayah of the pooah.
Mutberagawd! -- Favorite expletive of a fawmah mayah.
nawtheasta -- A multiday stawm that blows in from the wotta. In February, a blizzid.
NINA -- No Irish Need Apply. Employment signs remembered bitterly by third-generation Irish who never saw one.
Noo Yok -- Sinkhole of America, 240 miles south of Tremont Street.
Oah -- Greatest Broon evah. Woah Numba Foah. Also: what the Hahvid crew rows with.
owah -- Sixty minutes. Also belonging to us.
pahk -- Can’t do it in Hahvid Yalhd. Not downtown, eitha. Maybe in Glosta.
pahkah -- One who pahks a cah.
pahker -- What you wayah in the winta.
pahlah -- Where the sofer is.
Pahselz -- Former coach of the professional football team neah Patuckit; Moah popula than the guvnah - this yeah.
pahster -- Spaghetti, ziti, etc., served with veal pahm.
paht -- Neighborhood of the city: What paht of Bawstin are you from? Dot? Rozzie? Eastie?
pahty -- A social gathering. Also: Democratic or Republican.
pastah -- The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrit's or Sacred Haht.
pickchas -- Canvases by Sahjent et al. hanging in the Emeffay
pitchas -- They throw fast-balls at Fenway.
retahded -- Silly: Making Nancy Kerrigan wear her Olympic medal at Disney World wasn’t just "corny"; it was retahded .
Rawjah -- He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway.
Reveah -- He rode through Ahlington on a hoss, shouting: "To ahms!" Lived in the Nawth End. Also: the city just above Bawstin on the wotta
shua -- Of course.
Seltz -- Local professional basketball team. Plays on a pahkay floah at the Gahden.
shot -- Not tall. The mayah is shot.
squayah -- Intersection with a bus stop, a smoke shop, and a Brigham’s; e.g., Cleary, Oak, Maverick, Codman.
speeka -- Tip O’Neill, back when the Democrats ran things. Now refers to Chahlie Flaherty up the State House. Mistahspeeka, to you.
Sistah -- (variant) I know the ansah, Sistah Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Call on me.
tamorrah -- The day aftah today.
tonic -- Coke, Sprite, etc. Not to be confused with tonic wotta, which goes with gin.
waw -- An ahmed conflict As in: "If they meanto have a waw, let it begin heah."
wof -- A peeah, jutting into the hahbah; e.g., Rowes, India, Long.
wottah -- A blend of hydrogen and oxygen. Also: a street next to Milk.
Yankee -- Descendant of the folks who stole the Indians’ seed con.
yeah -- A 365-day period: The Red Sox always make us wait until the next one.