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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.
