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Bawstonian Lexicahn:

The Boston Globe had a lexicon for people learning to speak with a "Bawstin"
accent. The following contains some of the better excerpts.

pahty - A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with Mother Nature.
ah - The letter between "q" & "s."
ahnt - Sistah of your fathah or muthah.
bah - Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah."
bayah - Ferocious brown or black animal.
beah - Malt beverage.
bon - As in: "Where were you bon?"
bzah - Strange, odd.
Chahlz - The rivah.
chowdah - Clams, milk, buttah.
con - Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.
connah - Where streets intersect.
fah - Not neah heah
fok - What you eat pahster with.
fyah - Blaze
Gahden - What they're tearing down this yeah.
hahbah - What they dumped tea into in 1773.
Hahvid - Country day school across the rivah.
hahf-ahst - Done without regahd to detail.
heah - Done with the eahs. "Listen my children, and you shall heah of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah."
khakis - What you staht the cah with.
nawtheastah - Stawm that blows in from the wottah.
Noo Yok - Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street.
owah - Sixty minutes.
pahk - Cahn't do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown eithah.
pahster - spaghetti, ziti, etc.
pastah - The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.
pichahs - They throw fastballs at Fenway.
Rawjah - He threw the fastest fastballs at Fenway.
Reveah - He rode through Ahlington on a hiss shouting "To Ahms!"
shuah - Of course
shot - Not tall.
wof - A peeah, jutting into the hahbah.
wottah - H2O
yeah - A 365 day period.
yiz - You, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin down to the Cape tammorah?"

snickahs to Pahtrick Mahshall

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