Favorite Boston-ized word

[Paragon]

[Monte Carlo]

1. I don't see "pissah" or "wick'd" on that list.

I doth protest much.

[Paragon]

4. Done.

:)

[DrBB]

2. Bwob

Nickname for Robert. As in Hurricane Bwob, a number of years back...

[tcfrogs]

3. Isn't Nomar's pronunciation spelled

NOH-MAHHHH?

[NJCher]

5. cah

How could you forget that one!


Cher

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. No, it's "NOMAAAAAAH"

:D

[tcfrogs]

7. Sorry, it's tough to remember

whether it's A's or H's

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. I figured you'd LOVE this link

http://home.earthlink.net/~lnkn/accent.htm

Whatayou retahdid?

My favorite .wav file is:

Dijaduah?

And you probably won't understand what it means until you hear the sound file...

[MikeG]

9. Cuber.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Idear.

[ronnykmarshall]

13. That's mine too.

[oxymoron]

11. My name is Mark

and I never recognized my name when people were trying to get my attention while I was there. Hey, Maaaack!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. It was funny when local boy Mark Wahlberg was known as MAAHKY-MAAHK"

:D

[AlecBGreen]

12. Its not "Shau-derrrrrreeeee..."

ITS CHOWDAH! SAY IT! CHOWWWWWWWDAH!

[graywarrior]

15. Am-bah.

You forgot Am-bah.

[GCP]

18. ROTFL That's what came into my head immediately

The Simpsons has to be the funniest series EVAAH.

[Onlooker]

16. When I first moved to Boston ...

I had a friend who said to me, "I gawda go shawpin' at jird'n mahsh," which meant "I've got to go shopping at Jordan Marsh" (a department store). But, other than that, I think Nomaaaaaaah is the best. Also, read about a teacher who asked his students to spell "shock," and they promptly replied s-h-a-r-k.

[tedoll78]

17. Other:

re-TAA-ded

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. wattaya retahdid?

:D

i can't believe that growing up here I managed to escape the dreaded accent. I have a difficult time understanding some of the natives!

[Sporadicus]

19. Shegga

As in 'please pass the shegga.' It was in this context that I first heard 'sugar' pronounced that way, and the Bostonian requesting the sugar had to ask me twice; I just didn't understand :shrug:

[VOX]

20. The always-classic "Pahk the cah."

And those things that steer your bicycle are "handlebahs."

[MrSandman]

22. In Hahhvahd Pahk...n/t

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. In Haahvid Yahd!

though you can't take cars in there at all...

[MrSandman]

25. my bad

[VOX]

29. Thanks for my first good laugh of the day, RR!!!

:hug: :toast: :hug:

[CanuckAmok]

23. Baaah Hahhbah (Bar Harbor)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. No fair, that is Mainiac speak.... not Bawstan.

[SarahB]

26. wick'd

Although not a Bostonian or even as Massachusetian (is that even a word?) as a mid-west transplant who moved to Connecticut when I was in high school (now that was fun- NOT!). WICKED/wick'd (whatever spelling) was the word that was the one word I adopted into my lexicon aside from replacing the word "pop" for soda.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

28. Faddah, as in

Blest me Faddah fo I had sinned.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. In Bostonese, it also describes someone with flatulence

;-)