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Your Abbreviated Guide to Proper Yankonics
For anyone living in or considering a trip to Boston (pronounced BAH-stin), this guide to proper local pronounciation should help you get acclimated here quickly:
Pahty:
A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with Mother Nature.
ah:
The letter between "q" & "s."
ahnt:
Sistah of your fathah or muthah.
bah:
Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah."
bay-ah:
Ferocious brown or black animal.
beah:
Malt beverage.
bahn:
As in: "What yeah were you bahn in?"
bzah:
Strange, odd.
Chahlz:
The rivah.
chowdah:
Clams, milk, buttah.
cahn:
Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.
connah:
Where streets intersect.
fah:
Not neah heah
fahk:
What you eat pahster with.
fiah:
Blaze
Gahden:
What they closed last yeah (also a place to plant flowahs.) ïhahbah:
What they dumped tea into in 1773.
Hahvid:
Preppy college across the rivah.
hahf-ahst:
Done without regahd to detail.
heah:
Done with the eahs. "Listen my children, and you shall heah of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah."
khakis:
What you staht the cah with and keep on yawh key chain. ïnawtheastah:
Stahm that blows in from the wottah.
Noo Yok:
Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street.
owah:
Sixty minutes.
pahk:
Cahn't do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown eithah.
pahster:
spaghetti, ziti, etc.
pastah:
The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.
pichahs:
They throw fastballs at Fenway.
Rawjah:
He *used to* throw the fastest fastballs at Fenway.
Reveah:
He rode through Ahlington on a hoss shouting "To Ahms!"
shuah:
Of course
shot:
Not tall.
wof:
A peeah, jutting into the hahbah
wottah:
H2O
yeah:
A 365 day period
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