New England Accent

[Afgsusan1]

SOUNDS LIKE JFK!!!

[parallelpinkparakeet]

Dinnahhhhhh

[itsalyssaktb]

wow lots of arguing on here. i think the only people who should argue about new england accents are the ones that are born and raised here.

[AntacidForTheMind]

Some of us don't say "dinner", but rather "supper".

[XGGX9384]

@AntacidForTheMind My mother says supper. So did I when I was a kid, but people said, "Supper?"  No now I say dinnah. (Dinner) lol!

[Iccece92]

i love nh

[tristanauspride]

actually when you said half past ten til half past ...u sounded australian but not the three bit

[tristanauspride]

when you said dinner you sounded australian...

[TheChaplinLover]

The way she said "half past" sounds like my mother who was born and raised in Cambridge, MA.

[335pinky533]

boston accents are soo not nasally like that. and it doesnt sound british. it sounds like the words flat out have no accent at all. god dont make fun of us. new england accents arent british.

[TerrMys]

I am a linguist, a dialectologist, and a native of New England. This is DEFINITELY an eastern New England accent (eastern Mass, New Hampshire, and Maine), but this particular feature - the "broad 'a'" in words like 'half,' 'past,' 'last,' 'laugh,' etc. has rapidly faded away in recent decades. It is mostly heard in the speech of older people.

It may evoke Australian or southern British dialects because the 'broad a' was borrowed directly from contact with the British in the 1700s/1800s.

[yurismir1]

@hTerrMys Thank you. Finally someone who's smart. People think they know everything about the accent after they've talked to like one person from Boston. There's no way they could talk to everyone there and hear every type of Boston accent.

[bumpugleesfight]

You're from... not New England... Dumbass.

[humbletim10]

hahaha lol if you dont like it stay at home

[LeonJC123]

Sounds kinda like a southern English accent.

[Andybaby]

This actually sounds a little Australian..

[SnowracerX7]

trust me it sound nothing like a Australian.

[tristanauspride]

@SnowracerX7 when she said dinner it did...i know because im australian...but the rest didnt

[monkeysocks029]

WTF!!

im from ri && i sure the hell dont talk like that

[loverde2]

LOL. I know right, me too. Dosen't sound like anything I say.

[JoeOnTheRoad]

No one I've heard talks like that in New England. In New England we have more of a New Yorkish and Bostonish accent. Mine is a New Yorkish accent but I am from CT

[MiSsBOSSiNxOx]

what the hell is wrong with this lady . NEW ENGLAND IS THE BEST . & NO ONE REALIZES ITT.

[Dirt01x]

Depends on what part of New England you're from (and the time period).

[BloodOrange0000]

Is she making fun of us? That is not a strange way to word that.

[BloodOrange0000]

The baahth and cahn't thing seems to be fading away. I've never picked it up too hard.

[Murferoo]

This is without a doubt a new england/boston accent. I lived there for 30 years and the rest of my family still does. Haven't you ever heard someone say pahla (parlor), cahnt (cant) bahth (bath) - this is the same breed. There's dozens of variations on what most people consider a bostonian or new englandish accent.

[nmr85]

yeah definitely variations!! My parents/relatives pronounce things like "cahnt" and "bahth," but I never picked up that part of the accent and would say "can't" and "bath," and instead I just never pronounce my R's!

[XGGX9384]

@nmr85 My mom says "Suppah" and "Pahla" I used to until I got looked at funny...lol! I've been saying Livin' room and dinnah for yeeiz. Heck with those "G's too at the end of a word. I think we pronounce our "R's" we just say them differently. Example: Hard, like hahd. But if we weren't pronouncing the "R" wouldn't be be saying HAD? At least that's the way I look at it.

[VeronikaStokes]

definitely not boston lol A for effot though. it does sound like a very old accent though. i think you were going for the "dahling" type of appeal which is prevalent in some societies, but certainly not collectively or widely enough to be considered a regional accent. nonetheless, i hope you enjoyed your trip to our beautiful new england :) i miss it

[MuseZack]

that's an old New England accent.  the way Katherine Hepburn and the Kennedy's spoke/speak... now we just sound like uneducated retahds.

[XGGX9384]

@MuseZack lol! No, we don't... lmao

[ilyxmackenzie]

thats definitely not boston, that sounds australian. nd ya she makes it sound bad that we say that

[mrmandudething]

wow she makes it sound like its a bad thind that it sounds like its from new england ( which it doesnt sound like that )

[kalie525]

whats wrong with half past three til half past ten? i don't get it, really!

[XGGX9384]

@kalie525 Because she does what I do. Throws an "R" in the word "half" (it's now "harf") "Dinnah" (not "dinner") There was nothing different about the way she said 3 or 9. But I don't say "Parst" surprisingly, but I don't. I do say "arsk" (not "ask") though. My grandmother would say harf, my mother says half. I liked my grandmothers way better. :)

[SwanseaFire2050]

@XGGX9384 I don't know where people are getting "harf" and "parst" from. I've lived in South Boston, Brookline and Dorchester my whole life till I moved a little south to Fall River and now Swansea. I have never heard anyone say those words like that before, anywhere. The only words I add r's to is like pizza (pizzer), soda (soder), among others, or when one word ends with a vowel and the next begins with a vowel Honda Accord (Honder Accawd). "parst" and "arsk" just sounds dumb.

[mjay22]

Wow, it's interesting to note that New English accent sounds a lot like Australian. How did the accent develop different to other American accents? Is it possible that the same brought to or developed their accent in Australia? ;=)

[H3RM4NBR4V0]

she doesnt have the bostonian accent

[princesslenorastone]

???

[theguymjp]

lol, 'tis and auzzie accent that is

[theatheistgal]

I seriously think she was commenting on the way the time was written. i grew up in boston and I say quarter till the (hour) or half past the (hour).

[swisscitroen]

Strange. Definitely not a Boston accent. This accent does not exist anywhere in New England.  This is obviously a tourist from the midwest or something.

[CeltsSoxPatsBruins]

That's definitely a new england accent. Not exactly greater boston but more central mass,southern nh and whoever says it isn't is a fuckin moron who probably aint even from metro boston

[mjay22]

It sounds more Australian actually

[kalie525]

uhm, excuse me? i'm from central massachusetts and that's not a fucking central massachusetts accent. no one around here talks like that. so know what you're saying before you say crap, okay?

[xoaliishaax3]

stupid fuck.

thats not an american accent.

baha.

go die.

[permaKELture]

Actually, it sounds a bit like the other New England accent (the one you'll sometimes find about 2 to 3 hours north of Boston). You'd just have to raise the last syllable more.

[kataisa3]

That's not a New England accent.

[itsalyssaktb]

hmmm doesn't sound like a typical boston accent. boston is more nasally with the a's as opposed to well.. british.

[solwolfpunk]

True. The Boston accent changes according to one's socioeconomics. There is a blue collar accent, a old Yankee accent,a kennedy or harvard accent. a snobby WASP accent etc.

[tangy0889]

I've never heard of a "snobby WASP accent" in New England but if it does exist then it probably sounds something like yours, which isn't a New England accent at all.

[cordonsport5m]

im pretty sure, that James Spader's character "Alan Shore" on Boston Legal speaks in a "snobby WASP accent"..dont u think?

[TVwriter23]

What makes an accent snobby? I've met snobby ass people who are working class.

[theatheistgal]

umm no. I was born and raised there. You can even tell where someone is from by the sound of the accent. The Kennedy's have a Martha's Vinyard or Maine accent. WASP means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It would mean upper class relgious person. Everyone pretty much sounds the same. They do not have a droll and obvously pronounces things similar to everyone else. I hope this helps.

[AntacidForTheMind]

@itsalyssaktb Nasal "a"'s are not a New England dialect feature.  That would be Chicago.

[Dirt01x]

Mhh... no. And you're emphasis on the second syllable of dinner was strange.

[xDmadchillxD]

that sucked. bad dinner? no dinnuhhh

[solwolfpunk]

But it depends upon socioeconomic status to some degree and rural living. Tawk to a fahmmer in Peperil and you would swear you were in England.

[bbperv]

u wish! :D

[omfgCantGetaUsername]

dawg u only think that cus u bridish. but trust us when we say the new england accent is about the closest u get to a Brit accent seriously. howeva, pple from otha parts of the US sometimes do think they are talkin to a Brit but ofcourse this jus still sounds yankee to u. :-)

[HarvestNine]

@solwolfpunk wow...that was really ignorant of you. . . Thanks for calling me a cockney >.>

[solwolfpunk]

I fucking live in Boston. It's a Boston accent.

[driisaizrawr]

then you're either full of shit, or you're fucking deaf. no one with a boston accent talks like that.

retard. whoever is talking sounds like they're faking an accent from england.

[iLLMiLLz978]

@driisaizrawr MORONS SUCH AS YOURSELF NEED TO GOOGLE BOSTON BRHAMIN U FUCKIN ABSOLUTE DICK GUZZLER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yurismir1]

@driisaizrawr Uhh...yes some Bostonians do talk like that. Roger Cook, the gardener from the show This Old House, says the word "half" (and other words) like that. Also there's this web site called "Sound Comparisons" you can go to and there's a guy from Boston saying the word "bath" like this. Just because you haven't heard it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[XGGX9384]

@solwolfpunk I almost sound like that. :)

I'm from New England and I would've said Harf (not "half") but past, not ("parst") Dinnah (not "dinner") Everything but the PARST.

So, it's "theyah" (not "there"), "deeyah" ( not "deer") and "doh-wah" (not "door")

(40 miles south of Boston) Taunton...

[TheLooooo]

Heavy-duty NE accent... you've got the Haaaahlf... Paahhhst.

[jonxmartini]

you sound fucking British not at all like a new england accent..

[bbperv]

u sound like ur doing a really bad english accent