Boston Accent/Slang -

[FuckedUp]

Are they myths? Everything else like the bad drivers and Dunkin Donuts everywhere are completely true, but in the 21 years I've lived here, I've known less than five people who had anything resembling the accent—everyone says "park", not "pahk". Only "slang" people use are things like "the T", "the cape", and others that refer to particular Boston-centric things. Nobody uses "wicked" ever. One time my 10th grade English teacher showed us a bunch of "common" Boston slang we "should" know, and absolutely none of us heard any of them before.

 

[Renisha X]

It's not so much a Boston accent as it is a Massachusetts accent. The people from surrounding areas like Wapole or Amherst sound like Mayor Quimby.

 

[soft kitty]

 

[Save the Loli]

I have relatives from Massachusetts (not quite Boston though), they all say "wicked", call the liquor store a package store (never a packie though), pronounce it closer to "pahk" than "park", etc. Maybe younger people don't speak it as distinctively though.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

The engineer from TF2 has a pretty wicked and wild boston dialect. sometimes I can't understand what he's saying because it's so thick. people worldwide are losing their accents. It is predicted that the British will lose their accent by 2100. It's crazy

 

[The Pink Panther]

I'd say it exists. Exhibit A:

OP is a fagggggggget. A faggggggggggggggggggggget.

 

[Nate Triggerpoofer]

The Boston accent is pretty much dead and has been dying since the 80s. Gentrification hit the city hard, and people died off/moved out.

 

[Sped Xing]

Yankees all sound more or less alike, east of the Hudson anyway.

It can be charming in its way. It's Californian accents that raise my hackles. Like so for reallllllllll

 

[Golly]

I grew up around the south shore. The older generations are about 50/50 on having it, and if they don't will still use the colloquialisms. It was rare that the younger generations have it outside of the blue collar sphere. Sometimes kids fake it to sound tough and like they're from Southie. In general though, if you're from a good town or go to a good school, the accent doesn't really follow you nowadays.

That said, the accent paired with the effects of long term smoking is some of the most nails-on-chalkboard shit I've ever encountered.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

My middle school history teacher was from Massachusetts, maybe Boston or somewhere around the area. Had somewhat of an accent (maybe wasn't helped by his... odd teeth?), but it wasn't distracting. I still remember how he pronounced "Concord" as "Cahnkehd", it was weird to us kids.

Anyway, thanks to him, this is how I imagine everyone from Massachusetts must look like.

Spoiler: My teacher was weird

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

My middle school history teacher was from Massachusetts, maybe Boston or somewhere around the area. Had somewhat of an accent (maybe wasn't helped by his... odd teeth?), but it wasn't distracting. I still remember how he pronounced "Concord" as "Cahnkehd", it was weird to us kids.

Anyway, thanks to him, this is how I imagine everyone from Massachusetts must look like.

Spoiler: My teacher was weird

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You're not 100% wrong.

 

[Pissmaster]

Everyone else: coffee
New England: quoffee
Massachusetts: quaffee
Boston: queeffee

 

[Superman93]

fawkin ya mudder

 

[Justtocheck]

 

[Harlay de Champvallon]

I always thought Richard Cardinal Cushing, Kennedy crony had an utterly Boston accent, too mighty for Latin or the English language.

 

[Sascha Vykos]

You're far less likely to hear a Boston accent from a 20-something. I do occasionally hear it from older people (Gen X and Baby Boomers). You'll most likely stumble across the accent in places like Weymouth and Quincy as that seems to be where a lot of the old school Boston people moved too after gentrification started happening.

Slang is still fairly popular, ie rotary instead of roundabouts, bubblers instead of water fountains, and, yes wicked is 100% still in the vernacular of the region.