New England Accent

Typical Boston English. This is a sign at The Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, MA.

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[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.

[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.

[solwolfpunk]

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

[MiSsBOSSiNxOx]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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. :)

[XGGX9384]

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

[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.

[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!

[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...