A funny thread----Boston'isms (Cambridge, Lynn, Salem: attorneys, cheap house, buy)

[redpanda]

It's not a shopping cart, it's a "CARRIAGE".

[Rhaven]

I never realized how much I took for granted that everyone said is actually Bahstoniahn

I miss Cumbies, I bang a U-ie, and I still call the troopers staties. Yes, they are sneakers.

And whoever said the people in Hollywood are destroying the bahstahn accent in movies is absolutely correct. Anytime I see someone trying not originally from here, I cringe.

[charolastra00]

I love this thread. I grew up in the South and while my mom lost her accent, my dad was always traveling so he still has a heavy Northeast MA/Southeast NH accent. And I guess I must have trained all my Southern friends into talking like me because I didn't realize that some of these were Bostonisms! Like "Bang a Uey!" Haha.

When we first moved to GA in 1990, my mom invited my next door neighbor over for a tonic to which she replied that she wasn't sick. Then she asked if she wanted to see the cellah to which the neighbor replied, "Oh, you have a WINE cellar?"

And I've always had dungarees, shopping carriages, sneakers, etc.

[holden125]

Originally Posted by Rhaven

And whoever said the people in Hollywood are destroying the bahstahn accent in movies is absolutely correct. Anytime I see someone trying not originally from here, I cringe.

This is not so much about murdering the accent, but I just had an argument with someone at work in NYC about Boston Legal. She loves the show; I said I have no issues with it except that there's nothing particularly Boston about it. When you watch Law & Order, or Seinfeld, there's a more obvious NY vibe that is incorporated into the show. They recognize that NYC has a unique accent/attitude/culture, and that is reflected. Boston Legal, on the other hand, could be set just about anywhere and really shouldn't be set in Boston, since the antics of the characters strike me as particulary un-Boston.

Maybe Hollywood can't win, since Boston people don't like it when they mess up trying to re-create local flavor, and I don't like it when they fail even to make the effort. My colleague think's I'm being too sensitive, but that strikes me as hollow coming from a New Yorker who can take for granted that Hollywood respects her city's unqiueness. It just bothers me since Boston is arguably the most local-centric and unique city in the US, above and beyond "pahking cahs," but you wouldn't know it watching David E. Kelley's shows.

Am I reading too much into this?

[2KidsforMe]

Originally Posted by holden125

This is not so much about murdering the accent, but I just had an argument with someone at work in NYC about Boston Legal. She loves the show; I said I have no issues with it except that there's nothing particularly Boston about it. When you watch Law & Order, or Seinfeld, there's a more obvious NY vibe that is incorporated into the show. They recognize that NYC has a unique accent/attitude/culture, and that is reflected. Boston Legal, on the other hand, could be set just about anywhere and really shouldn't be set in Boston, since the antics of the characters strike me as particulary un-Boston.

Maybe Hollywood can't win, since Boston people don't like it when they mess up trying to re-create local flavor, and I don't like it when they fail even to make the effort. My colleague think's I'm being too sensitive, but that strikes me as hollow coming from a New Yorker who can take for granted that Hollywood respects her city's unqiueness. It just bothers me since Boston is arguably the most local-centric and unique city in the US, above and beyond "pahking cahs," but you wouldn't know it watching David E. Kelley's shows.

Am I reading too much into this?

No. Ally McBeal was about as Boston as my Palm Springs mother-in-law LOL.

[cococryspies]

"sneakers" is a boston word? Then what does the rest of the country call them? Trainers? I thought that was a british thing.

[neil0311]

My favorite... "so don't I" ... instead of SO DO I

[Valerie C]

coco, in the St. Louis MO area, they are "tennis shoes"

Go Figure!!

[UpPastThree]

In Wisconsin they're "tennies"

[Patapsco]

Originally Posted by cococryspies

"sneakers" is a boston word? Then what does the rest of the country call them? Trainers? I thought that was a british thing.

I grew up in Maryland, with parents from Indiana, and they were always sneakers.