I love this! Very accurate! My family lives/grew up in the area (Milford, Worcester, Leominster, Waltham, Lowell) and this is very close to how they all speak. All the other Boston accent videos that I have seen, sound like a New York accent more than anything. I don't even think the new Dunkin's commercial is as spot on as yours. Thank you very much!
Terry, a Dorchester girl (1975) myself I moved to Tampa Florida 4 years ago (don't be mad at me, my husband's retired Navy!). I absolutely enjoyed the genuine accent you brought! Gosh, it makes me miss home! One thing is true, Southeners just don't understand us!! My daughter says my voice has changed a bit, but when I'm angry...wow, it comes out full blast!! Loved your post! Thanks:)
So glad to be validated by a real Bostonian Bill.. My husband grew up in 'Medfa' and I still think of myself as a Somerville girl on the basis of having taught school there (and of having the Somerville Journal run my column on a regular basis..) Thanks for this!
Everyone I meet asked if I'm from Boston but I'm born and raised on the other side of the country and never thought I had an accent or dialect, but I pronounce words such as car like "cah" and "park" like "pahk" because I grew up finding it was easier to pronounce it that way xD I love your accent and great vid!
Great video Terry...I agree 100% with you saying that you first speak how your family does. My sister and I were the first people not to grow up inside Boston proper, we spent most of our lives in Brockton and Easton. However, our parents, grandparents, and the rest of our family were all from Dorchester and I feel as if it just rubbed off, you tend to mimic the way your parents and family talk. When I talk, people are always commenting on how thick my accent is and when they find out I didn't grow up in the city, they always say the same thing.. "you have such a thick accent though!" Not gonna lie, its actually embarrassing sometimes that it's the first thing people notice. I try to downplay it a lot, haha.
well all I can say Christina is HOLD on to it! My sister, also a Dorchester girl like us., moved to Tampa too but she held on tight to our ways! Thanks for this :-)
Love this video, Terry you make me miss the north shore, where I grew up .I live on Cape Cod now… no one has this accent! My job requires me to phone in sales, to a call center down south…I can't tell you how many times I need to repeat things ….Everyone….I've said this before this is the real deal.!!
well this is a compliment I think ! I am officially old now I guess with my old Boston accent. I will have to do more to see if I really do have an accent and what kind I have . My people (all Irish) hailed from western MA in the 1860s so I speak as I was spoken to as a little girl in Boston in the 50s and 60s. Thanks for this :-)
Okay, how funny is this? I have to study a Boston accent this morning for an audition this afternoon and I Google for some audio - and run into a Smith classmate teaching me!!! Thanks, Terri !!!! Forevah!
Is the Boston accent prevalent around Worcester, or even around Amherst on the western end of MA? Some people have told me it is, while others said its only around Boston and that's it.
Thank you for posting this. I'm currently writing a book and the character is from Dorchester and I had no idea what the accent was like (I'm from England) so this is really helpful.
I grew up in Lowell and you sound normal like me! No crazy accent. I live in the south now and my kids were born and raised in NC so they tend to make fun of me from time to time. I say watah and caht and gawbage lol... Most people ask me if I am from Michigan lol...
I love Boston it was the only thing that made living in Lowell tolerable! My Dunkin coffee or tea and a train ticket! I live in NC now and my kids tease me from time to time for my accent Most people think I am from Michigan lol...
vida130 what do they talk like there I wonder! When I got to high school I too began taking the train 'in town' - often to Filene's Basement as I recall !
They talk like Andy Griffith lol... They say stuff like Y'all, yungins (little kids), britches (pants), up bear ( up there), amblance ( ambulance), buggy ( grocery cart) ,Toboggan ( winter hat). I told my kids that a toboggan was a sled they laughed. I miss Filenes basement I used to get the great deals! Do they still have Jordan Marsh?
As I've said Terry's accent is the best. I was on the phone the other day and had to repeat cah three times to the client....and then, they asked me to spell it. I met someone the other day that said," Your accent makes me miss the North Shore" : -)
Totally agree with you about the Kennedys; don't know anyone who talks like that. Though based on my travels, I think that's how people around the country think we all talk. BTW Mrs. M, I grew up in Somerville. SHS, Class of 1977. Had you for 11th grade English...you were a wonderful teacher :-)
Oh John I am so happy to hear this! I remember well that junior class - would that have been the 1975 to 1976 year then? You are so nice to say this to me. Almost nothing I have done since then besides the raising of my children has meant as much to me as teaching in Somerville.Now you must tell me your whole name so I can look you up in the yearbook of that year. (Never mind that I still have all my rank books! Perhaps I’ll find how you did!.😜 )
Yes, 1976. I'm sure you can find me in your rank books (can't believe you still have them) easily enough (can't be too many names John Mac_ _). You may even remember me (let's just say I kind of stood out...LOL). I haven't really kept in touch as far as alumni stuff, as frankly, I don't have a lot of fond memories of those years, but that class was one of them. You were very kind to me, and I've always appreciated it. I actually saw you a year or two ago and wanted to say hello and thank you personally but didn't think it was appropriate...we were both at the hospital :-) You'll be glad to know, I'm doing quite well, as I know you are. I always enjoy your columns so much. Thank you again, and thanks for the reply.
me old, or the video haha? Once someone wrote as a comment, "Is this even a woman?" You have to have a thick skin on this here internet! Thanks about getting Medfud right . :-)
Thanks Terry. Just realised I watched Ted the other day with Mark Wahlberg and that's set in Boston! My character has a father from the South, but has grown up in Victorian Boston so Lord knows what her accent would really be like!
This was a nice message ... I try to put in the R's sometimes but when I made my two audio books I felt like such an inauthentic person doing that , so there I am what I am as Popeye used to say... (Oh and same here with the 'wicked'!!)
Great job! As anyone can tell you, native Bostonians can tell which section of the city you come from by your accent. As you were speaking , I guessed South Boston. I was close,, it was Dorchester!
Sounds like you may have lost some of your accent, unless the accent has changed from when my mother grew up in Dorchester. Besides saying "car" like it's written you also pronounced "Dorchester" "Dorchester!" My mother still says "Dawchesta."
I know I don't talk like people from Southie or even from Dorchester - I never did say Dawchester but I do say Doohchesta, a not insignificant difference. I don't know why I put the 'er' sound in this clip as I never talk that way. You should hear me say Center Harbor, the town next to our summer place in NH! Anyway Eric thanks, six months late, for this keen obseravation . :-)
I was born and raised in Somerville. I came across some videos today of people attempting to do a Boston accent. It was refreshing to come across someone who actually sounds like they're from Boston. Even some claimed to be from Boston and I couldn't tell. I was starting to think I was going to have to post my own video. I still might. It'll be WICKED PISSAH! :)
I left Boston 22 years ago. Somerville raised. In time, by relocation and being aware of my speech, my accent faded. I had noticed others cringing when I spoke. I still laugh when I listen to my family speak. Nobody thinks I'm from Boston anymore. And, I'm better for it. I no longer say, "Ga hed. Um goin' wit ya, ya looza." ("Go ahead. I'm going with you, you loser.") Hey, I love Boston, it's a great city. "Um tawkin ta yu, looza. Um frum Summavill too ya friggin jurk. Whuddaya want frum me?"
I liked Harriet MacGibbon's "Boston" accent in TBH but I don't think it was perfectly accurate since she wasn't a Boston native and only lived there. Is the emphasis on the end of some words like "there" being pronounced "there-ya" common in Boston accents? True Boston accents are so unique and lovely.
Yes Michael..Somehow we just can't help how we talk ! :-)
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Some Italians from East Boston for some reason tend to sound like the accent of many in Little Italy(Manhattan ), or sections of Brooklyn, and even neighbourhoods in Providence, RI.
well you are very welcome Deb.. I think it's time I made a new one.. I have this nephew with an amazing purebred unfeigned Boston accent. Maybe I'll drag hin in front of the camera too one day soon ..
I keep telling people only the Kennedys sound like the Kennedys . It is a Boston accent but it is a Kennedy accent .Your right the older Kennedys had it .
Okay. I heard these "Boston accents" on TV and online. I live in Attleboro but I pretty much know my way around Boston and I'm here thinking, what the heck? I've never heard anyone talk like that! LOL Honestly, I haven't even noticed the famous R dropping. Maybe I'm just too close to see it and to everyone else it's obvious?
Maybe that's it. Or it could be that my grandparents were first generation Americans (Irish) and theres a litt;e music from the Old Country that somehow got passed down too...
Miss Terry - first of all, you are beautiful. Second, GREAT accent. Third, funny jokes (I am particularly fond of blonde jokes). Last, re the Kennedys ~ the old Boston Brahmin accent was authentic though a thing of the past.
Yes you're right as I've just learned. Thank you 'merc' for these kind words. It's all about having an open and cheerful demeanor I think . Anyway this made me very happy, for the warmth in it. :-)
I'm OFD(Originally From Dorchester) too Terry. I was born in St. Margaret's hospital which I'm sure Terry was familiar. Anyway, I get a kick out of seeing the skits, like on SNL or Seth Meyers, because they're aimed at making fun of how we talk. That I can stomach but when Hollywood tries to put non-Bostonians on screen it's God awful. Good job Terry
I love OFD! Hahadn't heard that particular acronym before ! And thanks for this nice comment, Mr./Ms Beatts. Why is it so hard for actors of all people to get the accent right? even the great Robin Williams said "Bahston" in God Will Hunting when you and I know the mouth should make a perfect smallish circle to say it right. Ah well... Hope you saw Manchester by the Sea. That Casey Affleck's work touches me so ...
i think people talk first like the way their families talk... Many black families moved up north from the south in the 40s - and Hispanics folks too are 'from away'
I love hearing people tag on the random ' r ' sound onto certain words. For example, at 0:38 "...and then I saw(r) another tree...". I dont mean that as an insult either. I think its interesting how that developed.
Well, my Ma's grandparents were first generation Mayo, but the true Dorchester accent is unique. I used to ask my grandmother what "Sure-as-sha-god" meant and why a hot day was clammy and a cold day was clammy, too. She'd ignore me. There was a standup comic who could do all the accents, from Revere to Dorchester.
Beautiful accent. Not much accent there to pick up on considering how actors butcher it in movies. :P Great jokes too. The blonde says I think was the best one. :)))
This is a modern Bostonian accent. The vernacular has Irish American influences. Before the overwhelming Irish influx to Boston, the locals had a different accent.
Lmaooo why am i watching people do boston accents lmao
Ahhh a true Boston native
That's right Eric! Born in the old Boston Lying In hospital, now part of Brigham & Women's. :-)
I love your accent, thanks so much for making the video!
I love this! Very accurate! My family lives/grew up in the area (Milford, Worcester, Leominster, Waltham, Lowell) and this is very close to how they all speak. All the other Boston accent videos that I have seen, sound like a New York accent more than anything. I don't even think the new Dunkin's commercial is as spot on as yours. Thank you very much!
Terry, you are wicked lovely. Your video was great, thank you.
So nice of you templario!
Thanks so much!! I have to imitate that accent for my part in a play, and this helps TREMENDOUSLY. :)
great job, thank you so much .! all our students in cornerstone loved it!
well this is really sweet ! Good luck to your work at Cornerstone!
Terry, a Dorchester girl (1975) myself I moved to Tampa Florida 4 years ago (don't be mad at me, my husband's retired Navy!). I absolutely enjoyed the genuine accent you brought! Gosh, it makes me miss home! One thing is true, Southeners just don't understand us!! My daughter says my voice has changed a bit, but when I'm angry...wow, it comes out full blast!! Loved your post! Thanks:)
So glad to be validated by a real Bostonian Bill.. My husband grew up in 'Medfa' and I still think of myself as a Somerville girl on the basis of having taught school there (and of having the Somerville Journal run my column on a regular basis..) Thanks for this!
Everyone I meet asked if I'm from Boston but I'm born and raised on the other side of the country and never thought I had an accent or dialect, but I pronounce words such as car like "cah" and "park" like "pahk" because I grew up finding it was easier to pronounce it that way xD I love your accent and great vid!
Great video Terry...I agree 100% with you saying that you first speak how your family does. My sister and I were the first people not to grow up inside Boston proper, we spent most of our lives in Brockton and Easton. However, our parents, grandparents, and the rest of our family were all from Dorchester and I feel as if it just rubbed off, you tend to mimic the way your parents and family talk. When I talk, people are always commenting on how thick my accent is and when they find out I didn't grow up in the city, they always say the same thing.. "you have such a thick accent though!" Not gonna lie, its actually embarrassing sometimes that it's the first thing people notice. I try to downplay it a lot, haha.
well all I can say Christina is HOLD on to it! My sister, also a Dorchester girl like us., moved to Tampa too but she held on tight to our ways! Thanks for this :-)
I love the Chicago accent! It reminds me of the Second City comedy troupe way back at the start of SNL!
Love this video, Terry you make me miss the north shore, where I grew up .I live on Cape Cod now… no one has this accent! My job requires me to phone in sales, to a call center down south…I can't tell you how many times I need to repeat things ….Everyone….I've said this before this is the real deal.!!
bill william isn't to the truth Bill! Every time I say the word 'dark' people think I'm talking about a dock..
well this is a compliment I think ! I am officially old now I guess with my old Boston accent.
I will have to do more to see if I really do have an accent and what kind I have .
My people (all Irish) hailed from western MA in the 1860s so I speak as I was spoken to as a little girl in Boston in the 50s and 60s. Thanks for this :-)
Terry Marotta I think the Boston accent is more like an Irish accent
that sounds nice and ocean-viewish. We were over on the Dorchester Roxbury line: off Blue Hill Ave... I miss that nice old house...
Okay, how funny is this? I have to study a Boston accent this morning for an audition this afternoon and I Google for some audio - and run into a Smith classmate teaching me!!! Thanks, Terri !!!! Forevah!
Ah mimi so nice to see your face here! You'll have to tell us what you're up to! Big fans here in your old college class!
She has it nailed...This is how we talk.... grew up on the North Shore. Worked in Somerville and Medfa back in the day.
Nailed it! I'm from Lowell, but I live in South Carolina now and the people always ask me to repeat myself. Hahaha
I know isn't that hard? When I got to college I had the same problem! Also, small world Sara. I'm from Lowell too !
Is the Boston accent prevalent around Worcester, or even around Amherst on the western end of MA? Some people have told me it is, while others said its only around Boston and that's it.
Thank you for posting this. I'm currently writing a book and the character is from Dorchester and I had no idea what the accent was like (I'm from England) so this is really helpful.
How’s that book coming?
what do you think of other accents. i'm from Chicago and i don't think I have an accent. But other people do. Thank for posting the video.
I grew up in Lowell and you sound normal like me! No crazy accent. I live in the south now and my kids were born and raised in NC so they tend to make fun of me from time to time. I say watah and caht and gawbage lol... Most people ask me if I am from Michigan lol...
vida130 Hey vida I'm from Lowell too! well we moved there from Dorchester when I was in 5th grade . Keep keeping it real ! :-)
I love Boston it was the only thing that made living in Lowell tolerable! My Dunkin coffee or tea and a train ticket! I live in NC now and my kids tease me from time to time for my accent Most people think I am from Michigan lol...
vida130 what do they talk like there I wonder! When I got to high school I too began taking the train 'in town' - often to Filene's Basement as I recall !
They talk like Andy Griffith lol... They say stuff like Y'all, yungins (little kids), britches (pants), up bear ( up there), amblance ( ambulance), buggy ( grocery cart) ,Toboggan ( winter hat). I told my kids that a toboggan was a sled they laughed. I miss Filenes basement I used to get the great deals! Do they still have Jordan Marsh?
vida130
Andy Griffith😂💜
As I've said Terry's accent is the best. I was on the phone the other day and had to repeat cah three times to the client....and then, they asked me to spell it. I met someone the other day that said," Your accent makes me miss the North Shore" : -)
+bill william ah yes Bill! keep it by all means that lovely accent !
Finally!!!!! Thank you!
i luv this i want to visit Boston bad damn
Ah! thanks! YOU make one now! I love that Providence accent!
Totally agree with you about the Kennedys; don't know anyone who talks like that. Though based on my travels, I think that's how people around the country think we all talk.
BTW Mrs. M, I grew up in Somerville. SHS, Class of 1977. Had you for 11th grade English...you were a wonderful teacher :-)
Oh John I am so happy to hear this! I remember well that junior class - would that have been the 1975 to 1976 year then? You are so nice to say this to me. Almost nothing I have done since then besides the raising of my children has meant as much to me as teaching in Somerville.Now you must tell me your whole name so I can look you up in the yearbook of that year. (Never mind that I still have all my rank books! Perhaps I’ll find how you did!.😜 )
Yes, 1976. I'm sure you can find me in your rank books (can't believe you still have them) easily enough (can't be too many names John Mac_ _). You may even remember me (let's just say I kind of stood out...LOL).
I haven't really kept in touch as far as alumni stuff, as frankly, I don't have a lot of fond memories of those years, but that class was one of them. You were very kind to me, and I've always appreciated it. I actually saw you a year or two ago and wanted to say hello and thank you personally but didn't think it was appropriate...we were both at the hospital :-)
You'll be glad to know, I'm doing quite well, as I know you are. I always enjoy your columns so much.
Thank you again, and thanks for the reply.
Beautiful !
aw - thank you!
Old but still spot on . You nailed “ Med fed” !
me old, or the video haha? Once someone wrote as a comment, "Is this even a woman?" You have to have a thick skin on this here internet! Thanks about getting Medfud right . :-)
Thanks Terry. Just realised I watched Ted the other day with Mark Wahlberg and that's set in Boston! My character has a father from the South, but has grown up in Victorian Boston so Lord knows what her accent would really be like!
what part of Dorchester? i grew up on Harbor View St.
Perfect, natural. Nothing exaggerated :)
Love it! :)
Hi Terry, My name is Lesa Thurman. I need to use a South Boston accent for a show I am doing. Would you please be able to help me?
Medford pronounced correctly Medfid you rock. I love it. This is the real deal. You can't fake a Boston accent.
THANK YOU b of p! Vindicated!
This was a nice message ... I try to put in the R's sometimes but when I made my two audio books I felt like such an inauthentic person doing that , so there I am what I am as Popeye used to say... (Oh and same here with the 'wicked'!!)
Great job! As anyone can tell you, native Bostonians can tell which section of the city you come from by your accent. As you were speaking , I guessed South Boston. I was close,, it was Dorchester!
you WERE very close, yes! you have a good ear !
In movies they're just more pronounced, it's what most accents are like
I'm really no one to criticize haha. Thanks for this MM!
You talk so quickly :) I'm from the south and we take our sweet time
well maybe we should start doing that too Kat. It would probably cut our stress levels! :-)
Sounds like you may have lost some of your accent, unless the accent has changed from when my mother grew up in Dorchester. Besides saying "car" like it's written you also pronounced "Dorchester" "Dorchester!" My mother still says "Dawchesta."
I know I don't talk like people from Southie or even from Dorchester - I never did say Dawchester but I do say Doohchesta, a not insignificant difference. I don't know why I put the 'er' sound in this clip as I never talk that way. You should hear me say Center Harbor, the town next to our summer place in NH! Anyway Eric thanks, six months late, for this keen obseravation . :-)
I just drop the R and say Dochesta
Just what I said
yeah, I heard officer instead of officah, and user instead of usah.
I was born and raised in Somerville. I came across some videos today of people attempting to do a Boston accent. It was refreshing to come across someone who actually sounds like they're from Boston. Even some claimed to be from Boston and I couldn't tell. I was starting to think I was going to have to post my own video. I still might. It'll be WICKED PISSAH! :)
You tell'em Ma!
I left Boston 22 years ago. Somerville raised. In time, by relocation and being aware of my speech, my accent faded. I had noticed others cringing when I spoke. I still laugh when I listen to my family speak. Nobody thinks I'm from Boston anymore. And, I'm better for it. I no longer say, "Ga hed. Um goin' wit ya, ya looza." ("Go ahead. I'm going with you, you loser.") Hey, I love Boston, it's a great city. "Um tawkin ta yu, looza. Um frum Summavill too ya friggin jurk. Whuddaya want frum me?"
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I don't think so. It's my married name but our people seem to be from Medford mostly
I liked Harriet MacGibbon's "Boston" accent in TBH but I don't think it was perfectly accurate since she wasn't a Boston native and only lived there. Is the emphasis on the end of some words like "there" being pronounced "there-ya" common in Boston accents? True Boston accents are so unique and lovely.
Beautiful honest accurate accent. Thank you.
well thank YOU Lucy! This warmed my heart ! :-)
Yes Michael..Somehow we just can't help how we talk ! :-)
Some Italians from East Boston for some reason tend to sound like the accent of many in Little Italy(Manhattan ), or sections of Brooklyn, and even neighbourhoods in Providence, RI.
yeah! Codman Hill, Ashmont, Lower Mills! And all the other squares and 'hoods as well! :-)
Lol that last joke was funny :)
well you are very welcome Deb.. I think it's time I made a new one.. I have this nephew with an amazing purebred unfeigned Boston accent. Maybe I'll drag hin in front of the camera too one day soon ..
She has charisma!
Thank you for this! I'm an actor auditioning for the role of a Massachusetts farmer, so I really don't want an accent that's too BAHston!
I can see that! And the accent when you go west in MA is entirely different - Then add in the old New England farmer twang. Good luck with the role!
Great video.
Thank you! (as I curtsey). Believe me, that accent is hard to drop.
that's true , I have noticed that !
And that was completely unintentional Becky! Just goes to show ya: we are who we are ! :-)
hey Ma hey will you got me a boss of tonic
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Codman Hill, Ashmont, Lower Mills!
I keep telling people only the Kennedys sound like the Kennedys . It is a Boston accent but it is a Kennedy accent .Your right the older Kennedys had it .
well if we're wrong at least we're wrong together Miz Ramblin'! :-)
lol omg loved it!
You talk just like my mom :-) we grew up in beverly
Ah Meagan! Beverly ! I hope that you still have your mom and that you 'talk' often . Bless you!
Hugs from Poland :)
well thanks K! Hugs back to you !:-)
great video thx for this. im from nyc but i love bawstin.
Sam Karson And I love your city Sam :)
Oh, my! Dorchester for sure!
I like east coast accent. I especially like New York Jew accent lol
+sinkiy I love that accent. let's vote for Bernie!
lols
@itsVERYeri
there sure are! I ought to get my nephew to talk on heah . talk about your broad Boston accent!
Okay. I heard these "Boston accents" on TV and online. I live in Attleboro but I pretty much know my way around Boston and I'm here thinking, what the heck? I've never heard anyone talk like that! LOL Honestly, I haven't even noticed the famous R dropping. Maybe I'm just too close to see it and to everyone else it's obvious?
It could also be that you have such a sweet nature that you concentrate more on what people are saying and noyt how they say it. Good for you if so!
@mimicason I have family there. It's an amazing area!
You got me with "Medfid" ha ha.
you must be a Bostonian too to recognize that. It IS how I say it though !
Thank you. I moved out west (of 495) to the country sometime around 1990. I still have friends there.
Maybe that's it. Or it could be that my grandparents were first generation Americans (Irish) and theres a litt;e music from the Old Country that somehow got passed down too...
gotta find some more good jokes and borrow my nephew to show y'all the most pronounced Boston accent I'VE ever heard !
Me too!
Miss Terry - first of all, you are beautiful. Second, GREAT accent. Third, funny jokes (I am particularly fond of blonde jokes). Last, re the Kennedys ~ the old Boston Brahmin accent was authentic though a thing of the past.
Yes you're right as I've just learned. Thank you 'merc' for these kind words. It's all about having an open and cheerful demeanor I think . Anyway this made me very happy, for the warmth in it. :-)
Boston accents very in each area of the city, just like any other city.
Theodore Gillam really? by neighborhood huh?
haha- you did make me laugh!- I was born in Dorchester-
ha ! great Tommy, thanks!
I'm OFD(Originally From Dorchester) too Terry. I was born in St. Margaret's hospital which I'm sure Terry was familiar. Anyway, I get a kick out of seeing the skits, like on SNL or Seth Meyers, because they're aimed at making fun of how we talk. That I can stomach but when Hollywood tries to put non-Bostonians on screen it's God awful. Good job Terry
I love OFD! Hahadn't heard that particular acronym before ! And thanks for this nice comment, Mr./Ms Beatts. Why is it so hard for actors of all people to get the accent right? even the great Robin Williams said "Bahston" in God Will Hunting when you and I know the mouth should make a perfect smallish circle to say it right. Ah well... Hope you saw Manchester by the Sea. That Casey Affleck's work touches me so ...
i think people talk first like the way their families talk... Many black families moved up north from the south in the 40s - and Hispanics folks too are 'from away'
So its true about the "R" thing (mirror-mirra) lol super cute :)
I love hearing people tag on the random ' r ' sound onto certain words. For example, at 0:38 "...and then I saw(r) another tree...". I dont mean that as an insult either. I think its interesting how that developed.
How I describe the Boston accent: New Jersey, but slightly faster, and with a touch of Irish.
No kidding! Must be from Sudbury, or that area.
What a classy accent.
i like boston talkk
Its like a new York accent a little
Good job Terry - this is the real deal. If I every run into you down on Dot Ave., I'll gladly treat you to a spuckie and a tonic.
Ah Dot Ave! yes I hope you WILL say hi to me - and thanks! :-)
Sure is... Wait til you hear my nephew.. soon as he gets home from college we'll post a video !
Wicked awesome video
why thanks Daryl! :-)
Wicked Awesome! - says the guy from Winthrop...
you're so kind Mr. Winthrop! Love that town of yours!
Sounds like home.
+RightAway87 how did I l never answer this? So nice!
Well, my Ma's grandparents were first generation Mayo, but the true Dorchester accent is unique. I used to ask my grandmother what "Sure-as-sha-god" meant and why a hot day was clammy and a cold day was clammy, too. She'd ignore me. There was a standup comic who could do all the accents, from Revere to Dorchester.
Beautiful accent. Not much accent there to pick up on considering how actors butcher it in movies. :P Great jokes too. The blonde says I think was the best one. :)))
I love those blonde jokes too Rada :-) Thanks for commenting ~!
my grandma has been living in boston for 64 years she has the what you call “impersonator accent”
Well then I guess I must be wrong. What part of Boston did she grow up in? There are varieties of the accent believe it or not. :-)
@@terrymarotta i’m pretty sure she’s from the north side of boston
Heh, her husband comes from "Meffa" and she lived in "Slummerville" for a while.
This is a modern Bostonian accent. The vernacular has Irish American influences. Before the overwhelming Irish influx to Boston, the locals had a different accent.
Nice video and funny. Up Boston
Up Boston is right!
Ahh my fellow Bostonian hows the day going?
BOSTON! :D
haha awesome!