{"id":13826,"date":"2013-10-11T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:00:06","slug":"boston-proper-boston-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=13826","title":{"rendered":"Boston Proper, Boston Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"11<\/a>Linda Burton posting from Boston, Massachusetts <\/i>\u2013 If you want to be considered a proper Bostonian, you have to understand Boston English. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about the poor lost New England \u201cr\u2019s\u201d I learned; \u201cwe stick them onto the end of certain other words.\u201d Some \u201cr\u2019s\u201d take on an \u201cah\u201d sound; you can make any Bostonian groan and roll their eyes when you cite the example \"11<\/a>\u201cHah-vahd Yahd.\u201d But to a non-Boston ear like mine, that\u2019s what I hear. It\u2019s hard (hahd) for most visitors for the first few days, but Boston tour guides plunge forward (fah-wahd) with their dialogue and the tour buses roll on. I dug a little deeper into how it works and found this rhyme: Ah final ahs just disappeah, but wheah they go we\u2019ve no idear. <\/i>Yes, those floating \u201cr\u2019s\u201d grab onto words such as \u201cidea\u201d and stick there; I can almost hear John Kennedy\u2019s voice ringing in from the past. I even found instructions on \u201cHow to Talk Like Kennedy\u201d \u2013 so that vigor becomes vigah, and Cuba becomes Cuber.<\/p>\n

\"11<\/a>But to truly speak Boston English is to do far more than just move the \u201cr\u2019s\u201d around– the natives have their own unique vocabulary, and even grammatical constructs as well. For example:<\/p>\n