I'm sitting here laughing.....

[Little Star]

Boston Slang:
https://www2.bc.edu/nicole-mancuso/Boston%20Slang.html


I can't believe I talk like this but I certainly do.

You?

[gaspee]

1. I'm from RI

and a lot of it applies to RI'ers too - they're all funny.

[Little Star]

3. No suh! lol

[gaspee]

8. Exactly!

When I lived in California, people made fun of me for saying No Suh! I didn't know not everyone said that!

[Little Star]

9. When I say No Suh a lot of people answer...

Yes Way.

[Mopar151]

2. A more accurate guide than most.....

I gotta go by the packie, and stop at the Spa for tonics and maybe a grinder

Recite this line outside a 100 mi. radius of The Hub, they'll thnk you're speaking Sanskrit....

[2naSalit]

4. Yikes!

I've been away from there for decades and i still use some of these terms. and have the full-on accent at times.

I often provide a disclaimer: "You can't move far enough away or long enough to shake that stuff off."

A disclaimer I use for myself and other New Englanders whom I encounter out here in the west.

Wicked Pissah!

[DeadLetterOffice]

5. I like your disclaimer.

As a born & bred Pittsburgh native who now lives no where near there, I think I may need to adopt it myself. Thirty years away and I still can't shake the word 'gumband' from my vocabulary...

[2naSalit]

6. Indeed.

You stay far enough away for long enough to have that fade from your DNA!!

[JDDavis]

7. I have used 99% of them more than once

And many of them I would use today, and some of my friends even in Maine and NH would scratch their heads trying to understand what the heck I am talking about.

My California friends, forget it! They would have no idea. They used to make fun of my Boston accent all the time, and I laughed along with them, of course.

"Wicked Pissah" is the best, used in local Dunkin Donuts commercials last year, I doubt they ran anywhere else

[pipi_k]

10. Out here where I live

(in the Hilltowns of Western Mass) even we use some of those expressions.

Although we don't have that funny Boston accent...

[Little Star]

11. Sure you don't, lol.

[chelsea0011]

12. never was called The Combat Zone...it was more like "let's go-ta-tha zone"

The only people who referred to it as "The Combat Zone" was the news media as in "there was another stabbing tonight in The Combat Zone".

[seaglass]

13. Oh I think many people who lived outside of Boston called it the Combat Zone, us here in the north

suburbs sure did.

[seaglass]

14. This is funny Little Star but I'm pretty sure everyone says "hi hosey" don't they? lol. n/t