The Wickahd Good Guide to Bahston English

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The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English

http://www.bu.edu/mfeldman/Boston/wicked.html

I'm not from Boston or the NE, but my company is based there, so a lot of my co-workers are from Boston... they sent me this guide so I could understand them better. They maintain it's pretty accurate.
 
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man, I've just spent 20 minutes looking at that thing - funny! And neat!
 
That's funny... I edited the title of this thread LONG before there were any replies, but it still used my original spelling on the subsequent poster's replies.... is that a bug, or a feature? ;-)
 
Re: The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English

TangoWhiskey said:
http://www.bu.edu/mfeldman/Boston/wicked.html

I'm not from Boston or the NE, but my company is based there, so a lot of my co-workers are from Boston... they sent me this guide so I could understand them better. They maintain it's pretty accurate.
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Where you work is one of the last enclaves of old school Bostonian. In fact, one of my SVP's still referred to the Chairman as "Brahmin". My grandmother is one of the last people alive who still uses that term.

Fricken' was a word, that when uttered as a child, got soap in your mouth.

For my 27th birthday, we had hoodsie's again. I LOVED hoodsie's as a kid.

They will always be Jimmies, Hermits, Kegga's (I say Kegger, I don't drop my R's very often), packies, scrod, and uey's.

What's most alarming is that I still use wicked, mint, and killer on a daily basis.

Sometimes, I miss home.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
woodstock said:
Why does this somehow remind me of Savannah-ian speak?
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I'm from Boston. There is a reason that this sounds like Savannah speak. Both towns had occupants who were trying to imitate the trend in the early 1800s (I believe) of Londoners to drop Rs.
 
Sigh. I miss the Newport Creamery... (yeah, it's a bit south, but it was the real treat growing up). Those pictures of my first airplane flight were DCA-PVD.

I used the term "The Pru" the other day and someone looked at me as if I were crazy.
 
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wsuffa said:
Sigh. I miss the Newport Creamery... (yeah, it's a bit south, but it was the real treat growing up). Those pictures of my first airplane flight were DCA-PVD.

I used the term "The Pru" the other day and someone looked at me as if I were crazy.
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Newport Creamery? Good god man, have you no standards?!

I spent 6 months bouncing between 22, 19, 5, and 3 in the Pru. Marche had exceptional yukon gold fries.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
astanley said:
Newport Creamery? Good god man, have you no standards?!
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Beats the hail out of "Friendly's"..... Then again, I liked the old HoJo's caramel corn "logs", too....

I spent 6 months bouncing between 22, 19, 5, and 3 in the Pru. Marche had exceptional yukon gold fries.

Cheers,

-Andrew
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Boston is the best place for beer. In grad school, there was this place that had over 100 (yeah, that's right--one hundered) beers on tap. For $10 each, I'll tell you where it is.
 
wsuffa said:
Beats the hail out of "Friendly's"..... Then again, I liked the old HoJo's caramel corn "logs", too....
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I *LOVED* Friendly's as a kid. Friendly Frank, with the grilled split-top hot dog roll, and a Happy Ending Sundae (extra peanut sauce, hold the fudge).

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
spiderweb said:
Boston is the best place for beer. In grad school, there was this place that had over 100 (yeah, that's right--one hundered) beers on tap. For $10 each, I'll tell you where it is.
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Hmm. My money is on the Sunset in Allston.

I'm partial to the Publick in Brookline, as multi-taps go, they are one of the best.
 
astanley said:
I *LOVED* Friendly's as a kid. Friendly Frank, with the grilled split-top hot dog roll, and a Happy Ending Sundae (extra peanut sauce, hold the fudge).
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And that may be what I miss the most..... though *I* still think of it as a "grilled split-top LOBSTER roll".....
 
wsuffa said:
And that may be what I miss the most..... though *I* still think of it as a "grilled split-top LOBSTER roll".....
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The only way to make it. I hate, hate, hate lobster, but I love making lobster rolls for guests or friends when we bring a crate back from ME. Grilled, lots of butter, just enough binder to make the lobster stick together.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
astanley said:
The only way to make it. I hate, hate, hate lobster, but I love making lobster rolls for guests or friends when we bring a crate back from ME. Grilled, lots of butter, just enough binder to make the lobster stick together.
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Clam cakes and chowdah. I remember going down to Rocky Point.... the best....:smile:
 
Re: The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English

TangoWhiskey said:
http://www.bu.edu/mfeldman/Boston/wicked.html

I'm not from Boston or the NE, but my company is based there, so a lot of my co-workers are from Boston... they sent me this guide so I could understand them better. They maintain it's pretty accurate.
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Living in CT and doing business in NY and MA can be quite interesting
when chatting w/ customers on the phone.

There is a clear difference between the two States use of language and understanding takes on a new meaning. Take for example a Submarine sandwich.. In CT, we call it a grinder, in NY it's called a Hero and in Boston it's called a Hogie or a sub. Add in the dialect and it's funny as hell sometimes :)
 
astanley said:
I *LOVED* Friendly's as a kid. Friendly Frank, with the grilled split-top hot dog roll, and a Happy Ending Sundae (extra peanut sauce, hold the fudge).

Cheers,

-Andrew
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I loved Friendly's, mainly because there was one close by where I could bike to it. If I recall correctly, it wasn't far from the Sudbury river, and I have vague recollections about it being near the Stearns spillway. It's been about 35 years, though, so my memory's probably faulty. I remember going to Brighams for birthday parties, and they'd bring out these monstrous sundaes with two people carrying them.
 
gprellwitz said:
I loved Friendly's, mainly because there was one close by where I could bike to it. If I recall correctly, it wasn't far from the Sudbury river, and I have vague recollections about it being near the Stearns spillway. It's been about 35 years, though, so my memory's probably faulty. I remember going to Brighams for birthday parties, and they'd bring out these monstrous sundaes with two people carrying them.
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Weren't they down near the Common? If that's the place I'm thinking of their regular hot fudge sundae was huge. It even impressed me when I was in high school. It was worth a trip in on the T from Newtonville just to have one.
 
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