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	Shelley Murphy pronounces the Boston accent - Boston.com
		Shelley Murphy pronounces the Boston accent - Boston.com
		Boston Globe reporter, and Boston native, Shelley Murphy pronounces the Boston accent.
		Shelley Murphy is a reporter for The Boston Globe and covers organized crime, homeland security, and federal court.
	www.boston.com /travel/boston/multimedia/boston_accent_audio (253 words)

	Boston accent Information
		The Boston accent is the dialect of English not only of the city of Boston, Massachusetts itself, but more generally of all of eastern Massachusetts; it shares much in common with the accents of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, southern Maine, and northeastern Connecticut.
		This accent is separate and distinct from the Boston Brahmin accent associated with the Boston Brahmin aristocracy.
		The traditional Boston accent is non-rhotic; in other words, the phoneme [r] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Boston_accent (1448 words)

	Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
		Despite the dispersion and dilution of the local population, linguists say the Boston accent is still thriving, defying longstanding fears that homogenization would send r-dropping, "wicked"-exclaiming, frappe-drinking locals the way of the dinosauhs.
		Though out-of-town transplants often ridicule the accent, the majority of those who exhibit it are bursting with pride and want their children to speak it, too, whether it's at the dinah table or to the teachah.
		One Boston transplant, Newbury Street art dealer Sarah Ryan Chandler, 31, is typical of newcomers in her reaction to the Boston dialect.
	www.uwm.edu /~vaux/boston.htm (1242 words)

	tbradford.org: Tom Bradford in 2008: Growing up "East Boston" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The accent that most people from the rest of the country identify as a 'Boston' accent is not truly a Boston accent.
		It's an accent mostly common in southern Massachusetts as you're approaching Cape Cod, and it's generally associated with the Kennedy clan.
		The real Boston accent is a thick mixture of Italian and Irish accents, closer to a Jersey-mobster drawl than the drunken ramblings of Ted Kennedy.
	www.tbradford.org /2006/03/growing-up-east-boston.html (599 words)

	Boston Accent Furniture - Quality Custom Handcrafted Furniture and Cabinetry in Massachusetts - Mass!
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	bostonaccentfurniture.com (1043 words)

	Boston Brahmin accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boston Brahmin accent is a New England accent associated with the Boston Brahmin upper social class.
		Also known as the Locust Valley Lockjaw, the accent is typified by a clipped manner of speaking, stereotypically uttered with the teeth slightly clenched and the lower jaw thrust forward.
		The Boston Brahmin dialect is distinct from the urban blue-collar Boston accent, which is generally associated with post-1800 immigration patterns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locust_Valley_Lockjaw (239 words)

	Boston Accents Co - Makahs of wicked pissah T's and Lids
		The history of the world famous Boston Accent is steeped in legend and folklore.
		Boston Accents Co. - Makahs of wicked pissah T’s and Lids.
		R’s ah fah losahs’ and the circular mark are trademarks of Boston Accents Co. All rights reserved.
	bostonaccentsco.com /index.html (108 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Culture Clash
		While there are certainly undergraduates and faculty members from locales such as Medford, where the Boston accent is de rigueur, I have yet to hear the hub’s trademark non-rhoticity on campus.
		Yet at other universities, the Boston accent is not simply a reflection of one’s upbringing, but a symbol of Boston pride.
		Boston has long been a metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=517139 (778 words)

	Whatayou, retahdid? - The Boston Accent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The English language as it is spoken on this continent was stahtid in the Boston area.
		Howevah, Bostonians are often treated like foreignahs in ah own country when we travel outside the freindly confines of Area Codes 617 and 508.
		One of the unique properties of Boston English is the frequency with which 'compound words' are formed.
	home.earthlink.net /~lnkn/accent.htm (208 words)

	Boston Legal Forum - Is Alan REALLY from Boston? Accent issues
		Suspicion remains whether he deliberately did some voice training to eliminate the accent or whether living in LA has simply led to someone previously dubbed a "natural mimic" taking on the accent of his current environs.
		He's not as controlled with his enunciation as he is with Alan Shore, and the East Coast/New York accent is pure music to my ears.
		I would presume that if he wantedto d oa really thick accent he could, but bear in mind it can sound phony realy easily - look at how wereactd to Donnie's attempts, even tho his were darned good.
	www.boston-legal.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=978 (1633 words)

	New reality: Boston attitude shines on TV
		When Brian Worth first met the beauty queen he was competing for on ‘‘Average Joe: Hawaii,'' he greeted her with a ‘‘howaya?'' in a Boston accent as thick as clam chowder.
		In recent years, Boston and the region have been well represented on the MTV shows ‘‘Real World'' and ‘‘Road Rules,'' and ‘‘Boston Rob'' Mariano of Canton is currently sweating out his second ‘‘Survivor'' series on CBS.
		While some find fame and fortune, like Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck of Cranston, R.I., a Boston College graduate who made it to the final four in ‘‘Survivor: The Australian Outback'' and is now a co-host on ‘‘The View,'' many return to their jobs and families in relative obscurity.
	ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2004/02/28/news/news03.txt (1186 words)

	Camp Suze-Boston Humor
		Boston is a mishmosh of 17th-century cow paths and 19th-century landfill penned in by water.
		Boston is the home of slalom driving, thanks to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, which puts potholes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.
		When he goes back now to see how the Boston man is doing, he is shocked to discover the man jumping up and down cheering in obvious delight.
	www.mindspring.com /~suzecamp/bostonstuff.html (1626 words)

	Boston accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boston accent is the English dialect not only of the city of Boston, Massachusetts itself but also much of eastern Massachusetts; it and closely related accents can be heard commonly in an area stretching throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine.
		On the other hand, the Boston accent (unlike the Rhode Island accent) merges the two classes exemplified by caught and cot: both become [kɒːt].
		Edward "Ted" Kennedy (the Kennedys are sometimes described as speaking with a "Kennedy accent" which differs from the ordinary Boston accent in various unspecified ways)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_accent (1708 words)

	Boston Public \| PopMatters Television Review
		Created by television mogul David E. Kelley, Boston Public, is set in the fictional Winslow High School, supposedly in Boston (though, other than a couple of references to "the desegs" and a minor character with a Boston accent, you wouldn't guess this setting).
		Boston Public is, in short, a view of high school that dovetails with conservatives' worst fears: here, teachers can't teach because the students are too horny and violent to learn.
		Parents are apparently sending their kids to schools where the teachers are busy patting themselves on the back with one hand and punching or dismissing a student with the other.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/b/boston-public.html (1246 words)

	PENCELAND.com - Boston
		I came to Boston in 1973 for college and like many of the area's students, I grew roots while I was here and never left.
		Boston tries to preserve its history as well as promote new development2, so you can walk around downtown and see skyscrapers right next to buildings and cemeteries dating back to the 1600s.
		When I first came to Boston, as a newcomer to the Northeast I had to adjust to the local accent (sister is pronounced "sistuh").
	www.penceland.com /boston.html (3594 words)

	Boston Accent Modification for foreign accents
		Our unique accent reduction course is designed to help non-native speakers of American English to reduce the interfering sounds of regional dialects.
		At ARA we recognize that clear and readily understood oral communication is vital in the workplace, in medical settings, in academic institutions, and in social situations.
		Our unique accent reduction program is designed to help non-native speakers of American English reduce the interfering sounds of foreign languages.
	www.communicativehealthcare.com /accent.html (168 words)

	American Jewish Historical Society - Boston
		"From Haven to Home" is presented with a special Boston accent, and is now located at the American Jewish Historical Society facilities at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts through October 2006.
		From Haven to Home, which was displayed at the John J. Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston from September 2005 through January 2006, shows why Jews from around the world began traveling to America in 1654: to seek refuge from persecution, discrimination and legal barriers to their security and advancement.
		Most notable are portraits of Moses Michael Hayes, founder of the Bank of Boston; Judah and Abraham Touro, major donors to the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Bunker Hill Monument, and views of Jewish neighborhoods along Blue Hill Avenue in the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.ajhsboston.org /exhibit/index.htm (296 words)

	Bostonians In Exile
		Find-A-Grave: Boston is a great place to live, but it's an even better place to die.
		The Boston Globe maintains a pretty good website, although the most practical applications of the print version (wrapping fish, lining bird cages, and training puppies) are lost upon it's cyber-companion.
		If you've moved away from Boston, chances are it is much easier to find your way around your new city than it was to navigate Beantown.
	home.earthlink.net /~lnkn/boston.htm (1286 words)

	Mayor's Accent Deserts Boston for New York - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bloomberg, who hails from Medford, Mass., just six miles outside Boston, is hardly the first New York mayor to have been born or raised elsewhere (among others, Abraham D. Beame was born in London, David N. Dinkins in Trenton).
		Even after four decades of living and working in New York, he spoke with an accent that fairly or not distinguished him not merely as an out-of-towner, but, worse still, as having the nasal twang of what the writer Ford Madox Ford dubbed a "brick-throated bullfrog," which identified him as a Red Sox fan.
		Bloomberg, perhaps with the public's ear already accustomed to the twang of Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, a Boston import, in the 1990's, managed to overcome his potential handicap (as did Robert F. Kennedy, another Massachusetts transplant, when he ran for the United States Senate from New York in 1964).
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/16/nyregion/16accent.html?ex=1295067600&en=792adcd63cf699cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (901 words)

	Boston Accent?
		I had two friends in the Marines that were from Boston.
		I live on the North Shore and there is virtually NO accent in my town (Yuppie town).
		In RI we have a combo between Boston and New York City, I've been told.
	www.getbig.com /boards/index.php?topic=84366.25 (1076 words)

	TV.com Forums - Rocky seems like Boston Rob
		Boston Rob was a great player; Rocky hasn't shown a single good game move yet.
		I agree, other than the accent and originally being from Boston, there's not much similarity between the two.
		Boston Rob began playing the game like the "Godfather" pretty quickly beginning in the Marquesas season and I've yet to see Rocky do much of anything strategy-wise.
	www.tv.com /survivor/show/4742/rocky-seems-like-boston-rob/topic/3279-679153/msgs.html (1056 words)

	Boston - www.mbmission.com
		The world knows Boston for Brahminism and baked beans; creme pie and cod; Revere's ride, and that splash of tea in 1773.
		Olde as Boston's soul may be, it is spry on the surface.
		So when you roll in to town with your normal accent and ask a native, "Where can I get scrod around here?"; don't be surprised if the response is something like, "How delightful to hear the pluperfect subjunctive."
	www.mbmission.com /boston.asp (146 words)

	Boston Accent Causes Problems For Phone Co. - News
		BOSTON -- Boston's famous accent is causing some problems for the phone company -- specifically Verizon's new, automated 411 service.
		Apparently the computer is having a tough time deciphering the accent, so people are getting frustrated and complaining to Verizon when they end up getting the wrong number.
		But Verizon officials told the Boston Herald that the speech-recognition technology they use is state-of-the-art and can actually learn the accent.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /news/3889057/detail.html (257 words)

	Wicked Good Guide to Boston English
		You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar."
		Everybody knows about pahking cahs in Hahvihd Yahd, but there's a lot more to Boston English than that, despite what Hollywood would have you believe.
		We have our own way of pronouncing other words, our own vocabulary, even a unique grammatical construct.
	www.boston-online.com /glossary.html (260 words)

	Worst movie versions of the Boston accent \| Universal Hub
		judging from the trailer, the Boston accents, with the exception of Wahlberg's, are universally awful.
		It wasn't until the fourth or fifth season that I realized he was supposed to be speaking with a Boston accent.
		I think she was supposed to be from Newton, with a thick Massachusetts accent, but it was terrible.
	www.universalhub.com /node/5616 (269 words)

	bag 'n' trash -- home of monster yarn: Pahk the Cah
		even though i've lived in boston for 17 years and in the burbs an additional three, i'm proud to announce that according to this quiz that i swiped from elizabeth, i do not have a boston accent.
		"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas.
		I came back 100% Boston accent, but I think it's more in the vowels than in the Wicked or the Pissah.
	www.monster-yarn.com /2006/11/pahk_the_cah.html (450 words)

	Urban Dictionary: boston
		don't try to fake a boston accent in boston, i will instantly be detected and you will get cold stares until you leave.
		On January 31, 2007, Boston was essentially taken over by a collection of Lite Brites, resulting in a city-wide lockdown and mass irrational chaos.
		No one in Boston calls it Beantown, no one knows where Cheers is or has been to Cheers, no one has gone on a duck tour and would really like to shoot the duck tour company down, and no one has eber ridden on the swan boats.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=boston (992 words)

	Boston English
		An earmark of Boston English is its r-lessness (or "r-dropping"), a pattern in which syllable-final /r/ is not pronounced.
		A more accurate description of rhoticity in Boston English must acknowledge that even though syllable-final /r/ is dropped, it is still somehow "visible." That is, it leaves its mark in one of several ways.
		An interesting property of Boston English (one that it shares with varieties like that of New York) is that the r of these words has less of an altering effect on surrounding vowels than it does in other dialects.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lsp/Northeast/BostonEnglish/bosphon.html (686 words)

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