Bang a U-ey, Rotary, and Other Boston Slang

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @bobdonovan34
    @bobdonovan34 6 років тому +31

    It's true. We have no patience for long sentences. Everything's shortened up. Extra words waste time. We're always in a rush even when we have nowhere to go.

    • @74artgrrl
      @74artgrrl 2 роки тому

      The Pike is another one.😊

  • @jenniferwalsh1338
    @jenniferwalsh1338 6 років тому +47

    I live in Boston and I use a lot of these words I was surprised when some of them didn’t know what a bubbler was 😂

    • @oop2270
      @oop2270 6 років тому +3

      Sassy Chicken Nuggets ......every New Englander knows what a bubbler is.... I’m from Worcester out in central mass and I know what a bubbler is.

    • @ellenw391
      @ellenw391 6 років тому

      LOL I just posted on this...no one, in recent history has used that word for "water fountain." And by recent, I mean MANY decades lolol

    • @InMyBassMent
      @InMyBassMent 6 років тому

      Sassy Chicken Nuggets when they didn’t know what a rotary or bubbler was I was losing my shit

    • @Baconator1368
      @Baconator1368 6 років тому

      Ellen W i use the word bubbler and most people i know do

    • @zolarczakl3880
      @zolarczakl3880 6 років тому

      Don't forget frappe.

  • @pinkpeachlake
    @pinkpeachlake 6 років тому +58

    "Rotary" and "nor'easter" are not Boston slang. They are common throughout New England, New York State, and, I bet, a vastly larger area.

    • @jimeb2jim256
      @jimeb2jim256 4 роки тому +2

      Rotary is not slang at all. Roundabout is a UK word imported into the US a century or more after the correct US Rotary, but most of the country did not use them in traffic. In essence traffic planners were adopting a foreign word and feature as they were ignorant of the correct term.

    • @kingwise2074
      @kingwise2074 3 роки тому +1

      New England follows Boston

    • @74artgrrl
      @74artgrrl 2 роки тому

      @@kingwise2074 and Boston follows New England.😊

  • @ScottA2345
    @ScottA2345 3 роки тому +3

    A Nor'easter is not just a big snowstorm. It is a particular type of storm and while often used to refer to snow storms, they can also just be rain storms. It's the direction they move in. North and East. The usual scenario - a tropical system containing lost of moisture comes out of the Gulf of Mexico travels North East towards New England and runs into a cold front usually over the Northeast and or Mid-Atlantic states. The collision of fronts causes strong winds. The moisture hits the cold and causes a lot of snow. If it happens outside of Winter, then it will be just a nasty wind and rain storm.

  • @MegaALLCAPSRAGE
    @MegaALLCAPSRAGE 6 років тому +5

    alot of these are used in Australia in very similar ways. Bubbler = Bubbler , Nor'easter = Nor'easter (but means north-east wind) and Bang a U-ey = Chuck a U-ey

  • @wonderworld5606
    @wonderworld5606 2 роки тому +1

    We use bubbler, blinker and u-ey in Australia 🇦🇺

  • @frosting6439
    @frosting6439 Рік тому +2

    I was shocked to learn people outside of New England say tennis shoes instead of sneakers. I have never use the word tennis shoe we all use sneaker.

  • @277kne
    @277kne 5 років тому +6

    Bubbler because the water bubbles up.
    On the older ones

  • @interstateeddietv8551
    @interstateeddietv8551 5 років тому +2

    A bubbler lol I learn something new everyday. Don't confuse us Texas folks with this. 😂 This is awesome!

  • @PilarAYah
    @PilarAYah 5 років тому +5

    I went to subway one day here in NC and I asked for an "Italian Grinda" ....they looked confused and one lady laughed and said, youll find that at a strip club. hahahaha

  • @antiqueshistoryandconspira3791
    @antiqueshistoryandconspira3791 3 роки тому

    I so whish that these slang words as well as the accent existed everywhere is Mass. Though in western mass some of these words are used, like rotary.

    • @teachertrail4390
      @teachertrail4390 Рік тому

      The accent is all over eastern Massachusetts. It changes a bit in Rhodesia island

  • @MichelleDespres
    @MichelleDespres 6 років тому +2

    When I was in college, I had one roommate from Attleboro who knew what I was saying, but my other two roommates from NH and upstate NY respectively had to be taught the correct Massachusetts terms. They had no idea what a packie, a bubblah, a grindah or a rotary was.

    • @Davanthall
      @Davanthall 5 років тому +2

      Yeah I’m from North Attleboro and the only one of these that confused me was “bang a U-ey”, never heard that before in my life. But all the other words were normal to me.

    • @notsure6187
      @notsure6187 5 років тому

      Michelle Despres they didn't know what a grinder was? musta been one of those people who say sub or hoagie.

    • @Blackphillipsupporter
      @Blackphillipsupporter 2 роки тому +1

      Doood I’m from Attleboro!

    • @teachertrail4390
      @teachertrail4390 Рік тому +1

      I’m from North Attleboro but I live in Illinois now.

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENA 4 роки тому +3

    Noreasteer are strong Winter Stroms

  • @marilynpagliuca1478
    @marilynpagliuca1478 3 роки тому +7

    For those not knowing, Boston accent is the last of the old British accent. Remember the British were the first inhabitants!

    • @cinnamonape3045
      @cinnamonape3045 3 роки тому +1

      You're thinking of the Boston Brahmin accent.

    • @dhruvadeshmukh1248
      @dhruvadeshmukh1248 3 роки тому

      @@cinnamonape3045 how do you know Brahmin? Are you Indian?

    • @teachertrail4390
      @teachertrail4390 Рік тому +2

      It is also a term for the uppermost Boston people

  • @davidthaler7018
    @davidthaler7018 Рік тому +1

    Frappe, not milkshake
    Grinder, not sub, hero, or hoagie
    Pizzas aren’t sold as “pies”; they just pizzas. Pies have fillings, not toppings.
    Packie, not liquor store
    Old-school New Englanders may say “tonic” instead of “soda”
    And remember the accent:
    Kin ya spawt me three dawluhs?
    Whose cah we takin’?
    Can’t drive in this weather, no sah!
    Oh, and Peet’s coffee is WAY better than *cough* Dunks.

  • @leslieraymond6372
    @leslieraymond6372 6 років тому +19

    Jimmies

    • @Davanthall
      @Davanthall 5 років тому

      Leslie Raymond no. I’m a Bostonian, born and raised, and even I think that’s a horrendous nickname for sprinkles.

    • @lozloz7418
      @lozloz7418 5 років тому

      Leslie Raymond here in Australia it’s dingers

    • @davidpetrusewicz7729
      @davidpetrusewicz7729 4 роки тому

      Sprinkles not Jimmy cap

  • @asdic888
    @asdic888 3 роки тому +1

    Anyone who's driven in Boston should understand "bang a uey." Boston drivers are notoriously aggressive, so turns need to be made quickly and decisively. See also: "Bang a left at the next set of lights" or "Bang a right on Boylston."

  • @InMyBassMent
    @InMyBassMent 6 років тому +13

    Were half these people even Bostonian?

    • @bridgettorpey8206
      @bridgettorpey8206 6 років тому

      yes

    • @Davanthall
      @Davanthall 5 років тому +4

      InMyBassMent I sincerely doubt it, they were all college kids from other parts of the world.

    • @gordonhall752
      @gordonhall752 4 роки тому +1

      don't think any of them were

    • @petalchild
      @petalchild 3 роки тому +4

      @@bridgettorpey8206 No. They're kids who moved to Boston for college.

  • @lewis7315
    @lewis7315 3 роки тому

    i-yah means yes ...... " Down East" means the NorthWest towards Maine... as the prevailing schooner wind is coming from the SouthEast

  • @melissab2339
    @melissab2339 6 років тому +1

    💗 U BU!

  • @shantanu925
    @shantanu925 3 роки тому +1

    I wrote all these in my application essay, haha

  • @gordonhall752
    @gordonhall752 4 роки тому +2

    "Nor'easter" is an invention of the weather people on television on Boston stations. It was always called a "Northeast storm".
    And what's with their pronunciation of "garden" with equal emphasis on BOTH syllables? HUH? It's pronounced "gah dn" with what's known as a schwa between the "d" and the "n" at the end (meaning you nearly skip over the vowel all together.

  • @myradioon
    @myradioon Рік тому

    In Boston we use "Kid" instead of "Bro" or "Dude". Even between middle aged people. "Nah Kid, I stayed home last night and watched the Bruins".

  • @Futureone
    @Futureone 4 роки тому +1

    I neva knew my accent until the internet..lol

  • @matthewlorono
    @matthewlorono 6 років тому +3

    Commentary for anyone that happens along this video from an outsider that lived there for a few years:
    I never actually heard any use the word "bubbler" in the context of actually talking about a drinking fountain when I lived there. I heard the word by someone showing off unusual local words, but never in actual contextual use.
    Rotaries and Traffic Circles aren't true Roundabouts. There are distinctions in how a driver approaches and when to yield. The other problem here is that most Americans never encounter any type of round intersection, so none of these words would be familiar. Advice to any region thinking about putting in Rotaries, Traffic Circles or Roundabouts into their communities, just don't do it for any traffic where the speed limit is over 25MPH. Rotaries are traffic choke points in New England for all but the least travelled roads.
    Nor-easter isn't just any storm. It's a storm coming out of the North East, which has distinct properties that sets it apart from storms (including Tropical Storms) out of the South or storms (including Lake Effect Snow) from the West. Weather in New England is incredibly complex.
    Bang a u-ey? Similar to other phrases for quick U-turns around the US. In context, I'm sure most people would get this one.
    The- is a common practice throughout the world in many languages. Carthage simply means "New City" and Istanbul means "Into the City". Los Angeles has a similar habit using "the" with nicknames for their freeways. ::shrug::

    • @LoveNotesAndLies
      @LoveNotesAndLies 6 років тому +5

      Have you really never heard the word "bubbler" used as a drinking fountain while in Boston? I'm just surprised because I grew up just south of Boston, and didn't know it as anything other than "bubbler" for most of my childhood haha. However, although my parents use the word "bubbler" exclusively, I pretty much always say "water fountain" now as an adult. It's definitely a dying regional word, kind of like "pissah."

    • @matthewlorono
      @matthewlorono 6 років тому

      Yup, never heard "bubbler" genuinely used. "Wicked" I heard, and "wicked pissah" from time to time. I definitely heard the conserved R (taken away from words like "pissah" and added to other words that actually did end in an "a". :)

    • @tiedough7481
      @tiedough7481 4 роки тому +2

      I’m 40 minutes north and I’m suprised you haven’t heard it

    • @davidthaler7018
      @davidthaler7018 Рік тому

      A Nor’easter is a storm that TRAVELS northeast, originating south of New England. If it originated in the northeast, then every storm in New England would be a Nor’easter.

  • @seventiesgirl6449
    @seventiesgirl6449 5 років тому +2

    Why did they ask people who obviously are not from Massachusetts?

  • @bubulnaidoo
    @bubulnaidoo 3 роки тому +2

    I need Dunk

  • @crazeyjoe
    @crazeyjoe 5 років тому +1

    New York: fuhgeddaboudit Boston: wicked

    • @ΒΞΔΝ
      @ΒΞΔΝ 4 роки тому +2

      Wicked pissah kid

    • @jacquir8331
      @jacquir8331 3 роки тому

      @@ΒΞΔΝ Kid so right!

  • @MsSmitty9
    @MsSmitty9 3 роки тому +1

    Med-Fid. Never Meffa. Unless your from Mall Din. !! 😂

  • @gunnarfrawley
    @gunnarfrawley 3 роки тому +2

    MA PASS ME THE CLICKA

    • @johndoe-wv3nu
      @johndoe-wv3nu 3 роки тому +1

      Ma pass da clicka..... born and raised.

  • @reloadpsi
    @reloadpsi 5 років тому +2

    Let's just say that word for the liquor store is wicked awkward if you're from the UK.

  • @noahmcdonald5208
    @noahmcdonald5208 6 років тому +1

    I knew all of these sines I’m from boston

  • @DspaZZfrmdaf
    @DspaZZfrmdaf 3 роки тому +1

    Shoulda did Dorchester slang

  • @kiwitrap25
    @kiwitrap25 5 років тому +3

    Whenyacda dunk’n ondalef banga’uy’ dengo bouttwomo streetsdown you’llc apackie Honda left look for a packareds on the winda that’s my ca

  • @btm380
    @btm380 2 роки тому

    "Hook a u-ey" is also acceptable.

  • @Davanthall
    @Davanthall 5 років тому +2

    I’ve never heard “bang a U-ey” I’m a native Bostonian.
    Also the T is what the MBTA calls itself, I mean it right in the freak’n logo....
    I thought “round-about” was what they called it England?

    • @Jayden-we9ie
      @Jayden-we9ie 4 роки тому

      really? Im a native Bostonian and I hear it almost every time I ride with someone lol

    • @dinoradja2980
      @dinoradja2980 4 роки тому +3

      You're not from Boston

  • @kat4truth396
    @kat4truth396 3 роки тому

    The Gah-den not gaRden that just weird minus the R... who Eva made this isn’t from Boston lol

  • @annadraper6
    @annadraper6 6 років тому +1

    I always thought bang a uey was universal.

    • @MsFeiji
      @MsFeiji 4 роки тому

      and you can bang a left or bang a right also

    • @gordonhall752
      @gordonhall752 4 роки тому

      NO. "make a u-turn is".

  • @davidpetrusewicz7729
    @davidpetrusewicz7729 4 роки тому

    T or Catipiller

  • @johnnybravo1196
    @johnnybravo1196 5 років тому +2

    Doesn’t everyone talk like this?

  • @ΒΞΔΝ
    @ΒΞΔΝ 4 роки тому +4

    Any students coming to Boston. learn the slang sure....just don't try the accent please.

  • @hsun7997
    @hsun7997 3 роки тому

    People in Boston say bubbler? I thought it was only a Wisconsin thing.

  • @robertgraham5486
    @robertgraham5486 2 роки тому +1

    It’s not the Boston Commons its the Boston Common

  • @pepsiq11965
    @pepsiq11965 3 роки тому +4

    Please don't call it the Boston Commons. There is no S in the Boston Common

  • @TomSmith-dp9zb
    @TomSmith-dp9zb 2 роки тому

    the T's not reliable? there's a train every 15-20 minutes buddy

  • @jimdellavecchia4594
    @jimdellavecchia4594 2 роки тому

    The most common Boston slang is in Southie, where they are ultra racist. I can list those terms here.

  • @ellenw391
    @ellenw391 6 років тому +2

    Ok I've lived in Boston since I came up to go to BU, back when COM was SPC (and that is as close to dating myself as I dare). I have not ONCE heard anyone, anywhere, call a water fountain a "bubbler" except on videos like this. Just silly!

    • @annadraper6
      @annadraper6 6 років тому

      I've never called a water fountain a bubbler.

    • @helenakronick5741
      @helenakronick5741 5 років тому +4

      Ellen W I and everyone I know from New England uses the word bubbler.

    • @Davanthall
      @Davanthall 5 років тому +1

      Ellen W the kids called it that in elementary school all the time.

    • @71sc502
      @71sc502 5 років тому +4

      Sorry, but youre wrong. Im 15 min south of boston and we always called it a bubbla in school when i was growing up.

    • @Alison0305
      @Alison0305 4 роки тому +3

      Ellen W I came here in 5th grade and have lived in several towns as far out as an hour from Boston. Everyone at school (including teachers) all referred to it as a bubbler

  • @atex6175
    @atex6175 3 роки тому +1

    These words aren't slag they are words. Why didnt you ask people from Boston instead of half the yuppies from outta state that go to your school? Why am I surprised you gave aoc an economics degree

  • @jumpingjeffflash9946
    @jumpingjeffflash9946 3 роки тому +1

    that English accent at 0:28....swoon........

  • @kimcreate1
    @kimcreate1 3 роки тому

    You people are saying it wrong. It's bub-bla, and Nor Eaststa

  • @betsybaldwin4342
    @betsybaldwin4342 4 роки тому

    White out storm

  • @billie6528
    @billie6528 5 років тому

    Who cares about a bubbler? Are they still around? Lol

  • @AkilezNewEngland
    @AkilezNewEngland 4 роки тому

    The Philippines has Rotaries lol. We call them Rotary.