[tkx7]

I lived in southern NH (portsmouth, manchester and nashua) and most everyone didn't have a "Boston" accent. Those that did were transplants from massachusetts.

[Missionsix]

Vermont Accent - Cow Training - YouTube

the videos of this guy won't stop being hilarious.. Now here's that old time rural accent.

[cgregor]

In the Sixties and Seventies, two-thirds of the Vermont population was replaced by down-country immigrants. The historical intonations are pretty much gone, but some of the usages are still around, even though they're spoken in TV English. Things like, "So aren't I," to indicate one is of the same status just mentioned by another, and "Geezum crow!"

[Native Transplant]

I am from, and live in, southern California. But I did attend college north of Brattleboro. The few actual VTers I met did not have accents, except for this old guy associated with the Putney General Store. However, my college, just up the road, was dominated by Bostonians and NYC Tri-Staters, so after a while, I picked up that sort of accent.

I do pick up accents easily---well, bits and pieces thereof. I have lived in VT, down south, western PA, and all over CA. I talk kind of funny now.

[looking4home]

I find it amazing that the NH accent is much more typically New England than anything I've heard in Vermont. They are right next to each other, so close geographically, yet their accents are different. I can only suppose that is because NH is technically on the eastern seaboard.

I think the Vermont accent is an combination of a Upstate NY and Canadian. There is definitely a Canadian influence which you don't find with other NE accents.

[in_newengland]

Originally Posted by looking4home

I find it amazing that the NH accent is much more typically New England than anything I've heard in Vermont. They are right next to each other, so close geographically, yet their accents are different. I can only suppose that is because NH is technically on the eastern seaboard.

I think the Vermont accent is an combination of a Upstate NY and Canadian. There is definitely a Canadian influence which you don't find with other NE accents.

Yes. I know when I take those online tests of how you speak it comes out NY state, Ohio although I am from Western MA. When I am in Vermont it is like going home because they speak the same way I do and they speak the same way as my mother's family who came from the NEK. To the east, in NH, you get what sounds more to me like a Boston accent with the dropping of the Rs. I can just barely remember my gt grandmother who was born in Quebec and she spoke just the same way as we do. (Some were born just over the border in Quebec, others were born just south of the border in VT--borders changed often.)