The more I think about it, the more I love about living in MA!
@btm380
4 жыл бұрын
Everything is illegal in Massachusetts.
@GamblinDan
2 жыл бұрын
@@btm380 Sept weed
@Rowdy4324
10 жыл бұрын
Many thanks everyone for watching. Don't know how this got so popular after sitting around for months, but it's a nice feeling. Hoping to get a sequel up by the end of the month but no promises.
@umlcoms3007
10 жыл бұрын
My suggestion: Groton. Grow-ton (not) and Grawtn (the one syllable thing).
@CashCatMoney
10 жыл бұрын
Uml Coms I dunno about you, but I saw Grawtn and I'm from Mass
@IsaacPato
10 жыл бұрын
Should add Concord too. Too many people think it's pronounced like the airplane.
@ryanholland7368
3 жыл бұрын
You dont know shit.no Worcester???plus you pronounce everthing.
@Rowdy4324
3 жыл бұрын
@@ryanholland7368 thank you for your comment.
@vbry1599
6 жыл бұрын
I basically live in Stoneham (I live right on the Stoneham/Wakefield line so I do technically live in Wakefield despite not being able to get to my house without going into Stoneham and having Stoneham Water and Power) and when I was little I literally thought that Stone-m and Stone-ham were two different places! I knew how to say Stoneham but when ever I saw it on a sign I would say “Stone-ham” until one day I drove by the “Welcome to Stoneham” sign and did not read it Stone-ham for some reason (and said it like I knew how it was said) and suddenly I had an epfinany and realized that Stone-m and Stone-ham were the same place and I still wonder to this day why I some how did not realize that sooner or think it was weird that two towns (supposedly) right next to each other sounded so similarly! (I was like Seven when I finally figured it out!) 😂
@feb349
10 жыл бұрын
Quincy? Come on! It's Kwin-Zee!
@Rowdy4324
5 жыл бұрын
Cool. Yeah.
@darkwitch8648
2 жыл бұрын
True
@Laudanum-gq3bl
4 ай бұрын
Quincy is pronounced the same as the term for a peritonsillar abscess. 😂
@ssimpalaguy1
7 жыл бұрын
YOU MISSED LEICESTER!!! pronounced "Lester"'
@bellahontas510
2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@skottemtp
10 жыл бұрын
Actually, this isn't completely accurate. People FROM Raynham will tell you it's Rain Ham, Worcester is Wista, Gloucester is Glosta and Medford is Medfa. That's how we really say it in Massachusetts.
@scootrpy1
9 жыл бұрын
I so totally agree !!! This guys a jackass. He pronounces a wicked lot of R's where we don't use them.
@Rowdy4324
9 жыл бұрын
scootrpy1 I will not apologize for not sounding like the fellas from Good Will Hunting or the guys who call into EEI to scream about the Sox year round. If it so offends you then you can go watch any of the other billions of hours on content on KZitem.
@ladyofallthingspotterrelat1913
8 жыл бұрын
No he pronounced them right, it just depends where you live in Massachusetts. Not everyone in Mass has the same accent. I live in Mass and that's how I pronounce them, but if you go to Boston area that's how they say it. That's why the call it a Boston accent.
@skottemtp
8 жыл бұрын
Nobody said they were how someone with a "Boston accent" would pronounce them. This is how people in those ACTUAL FREAKING TOWNS pronounce them. You're gonna tell me that someone who grew up in Worcester has a Boston accent and can't pronounce his own city name because YOU don't say it that way? 😂
@Rowdy4324
8 жыл бұрын
yes
@gakabler
10 жыл бұрын
Contrary to what the narrator of this video states there IS a 'Ham in Massachusetts, and that would be FRAMINGHAM, a.k.a. "THE Ham"!
@pinkymcflowers4132
10 жыл бұрын
Isn't it more "Framing-um"?
@gakabler
10 жыл бұрын
Not in all the years I ever lived there!
@AppleSlicesUnite
7 жыл бұрын
Pinky McFlowers no lol? ham is heard
@Flars-rd5ob
7 жыл бұрын
If you were in England (whence the name), it would be Framing-um.
@kylemcfarland4764
6 жыл бұрын
Heyyy I live there
@michaelyoung8140
10 жыл бұрын
Rowdy - Gloucester boy, been on the West Coast for 35 years. Thanks for starting my day with a HUGE laugh!!
@drewish927
10 жыл бұрын
how about Chelmsford? no "L" "O" or "R" here! Chemsfid.
@thesteveus
5 жыл бұрын
An Aussie here who got most of these right, based on the pronunciation of the English towns and cities, a couple of them were tricky though, I actually though Worcester was pronounced Warchester despite the fact I know that would be incorrect. Oh, and Aussie is pronounced "Ozzy" Cheers!!
@Flyjaxx90
10 жыл бұрын
I love this video! Marlborough is a big one people all the time say ma-R-lborrow when we pronounce it mahbro
@LarryLansdown
9 жыл бұрын
One thing....there are places in MA that pronounce the "Ham"....like Waltham.
@teenagerinsac
8 жыл бұрын
+LarryLansdown Actually, they don't- they say Walth-um :)
@LarryLansdown
8 жыл бұрын
I've never heard anyone call it Walth-um. I lived there for 1 year.
@zowiezooblezilla
8 жыл бұрын
+LarryLansdown You will
@cyanglaciertooth9932
8 жыл бұрын
Yep, it's pronounced "Wall-tham" like it rhymes with "Sam". BTW, you live in Waltham? My condolences! :P
@AppleSlicesUnite
7 жыл бұрын
Cyan Glaciertooth lol
@jjmblue7
8 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Bridgewater-Raynham school district. Everyone I know who actually grew up in or currently lives in Raynham pronounces it "Rain-ham". It's "Rain-ham".
@Indawoodsvt
5 жыл бұрын
I think it depends on where in Mass you're from. My grandparents are from inner Boston and they always pronounce Raynham like "Rain-um"
@kdog2757
4 жыл бұрын
If you live in Raynham you said rain ham but if you live in another town you say rain um.
@rachelcoakley2954
10 жыл бұрын
"There is no HAM in the Commonwealth" is a false quote! You forgot about FramingHAM! The "ham" is pronounced phonetically with that one. :) (P.S. I'm from Massachusetts and I know what I'm talking about.)
@NorthAtlanticCity
6 жыл бұрын
I feel like in Waltham its more of a TH sound, like Walth-am, not Walt-ham. Or is it Walth-ham.
@marlabaisley8941
6 жыл бұрын
that's why Framingham is called the "ham"
@singlesideman
6 жыл бұрын
Tyler Wesson definitely Wall-tham.
@DavesRange
6 жыл бұрын
And Oakham
@sandsoftime1954
6 жыл бұрын
Wenham
@alysiumkiss
10 жыл бұрын
Grest job. Liked this a lot.
@srussia2281
9 жыл бұрын
GREAT!! haha thanks for making this! haha! 2 yrs in Boston is ENOUGH for me….moving...
@Giuvannuzzeddu
3 жыл бұрын
Right on, 100%. I was born and raised in METHUEN, and agree with all your recommendations. And yes, Methuen begins with METH, but the stress is on the THU: meh-THU-en, and not METH-u-en. And yes, there are many more: Leominster (LEM-inster) Quincy (QUIN-zy not QUIN-see) Waltham (WALL-tham, not WALL-th'm) Rowley (ROW rhymes with HOW, not with GO) Salisbury (SAUL's berry, not SAL-lis-berry) Athol (A-thawl, A as in apple, not A as in ape) Chelmsford (CHE(L)Mz-f'd -- natives tend to drop the L) Wenham (WENN-em, no ham) Wilbraham (WILL-bra-ham, YES ham)
@RightAway87
9 жыл бұрын
Live near the line of Haverhill and N.Andover. I'll never forget bringing a girl from San Diego up here and having her try and pronounce these names haha.
@philhoa666
10 жыл бұрын
Hahaha it's really funny for a foreigner like me. And I live in Boston, and more than once I've had problems with the pronunciation of those town names.
@bobkiley2596
10 жыл бұрын
I went to school in Billerica - Shawsheen Valley Tech - and they actually had us learn the correct pronunciation of "Billerica" turning our freshmen orientation! Of course we were from Bedford (no OR)...
@jasonmelo9379
3 жыл бұрын
I lived in Haverhill for quite a long time. From Springfield
@BlitherVids
5 жыл бұрын
Nailed it. I was looking for the whole diatribe about Concord though and didn't get one. :(
@rawesomeguyrawesome7462
8 жыл бұрын
I lived in Massachusetts (Worcester (Whoo stir)) since I knew how to talk. Boston slang is very simple. The "barrel" is a trash can because in Boston, the trash cans look like barrels. Most of it is inspired by Irish Englandish town names. In my opinion, all Spanish names are at least 10x harder to pronounce. I actually live in Shrewsbury (Shoes Berry) and If you stay here for a while, everything makes sense.
@rawesomeguyrawesome7462
8 жыл бұрын
Please don't reply to this comment.
@Rowdy4324
8 жыл бұрын
Ok, I won't reply to this comment.
@PianoDisneygal10
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know how to pronounce some of these and I have lived in Massachusetts all my life. yes we exist down here in Southeastern Massachusetts (Fall River, Seekonk, Dartmouth etc).
@Rowdy4324
5 жыл бұрын
those towns are easy to say
@BeckettSong
9 жыл бұрын
Townships are similarly designed to the New England town in that both are civil divisions of the larger county. Even though there are no county governments in all three southern New England states they still exist as geographic entities not political ones. Townships in New Jersey(outside the region of New England) are almost like cities because they are led by a mayor and a "Township Council".
@meganhazz
4 жыл бұрын
as a resident of woburn, it's "woo-burn" like woooohoooo!!! and i like to make an emphasis on the rn
@melissa90652
10 жыл бұрын
what about about Tewksbury?
@TheMadRussianSniper
9 жыл бұрын
Love this
@MYFAVORITES5
7 жыл бұрын
NOS4A2's "Have-Er-Hill" pronunciation in the audiobook brought me here. xC
@goodwavedata
11 жыл бұрын
Great video...for hams what about wareham and ashburnham?
@theNamelessDave
11 жыл бұрын
I've only heard those two as "Where-um" and "Ashburnum". -Grew up next to Lemminsta and goes to school on the border of Newtin and Bawstin
@chrisb6484
7 жыл бұрын
I know Reading and Gloucester cause I'm from Philly and them towns are here too.
@Davanthall
5 жыл бұрын
Hey, Duck boats are fun. I’m a native Bostonian and I go on duck tours....I mean you know....about once or twice per decade.....
@Kegga_6
2 жыл бұрын
How did Stoneham make the list and mefid didn't (actual spelling Medford)
@KenBadertscher
10 жыл бұрын
I approve this message.
@lindanorris2455
2 жыл бұрын
ANOTHER OBAMA OFFICIATE!
@nik_5992
6 жыл бұрын
Born in WUH-STA and raised in Web-sta Mass!!
@davisross4763
9 жыл бұрын
what about chumsford
@pewpewpew3212
6 жыл бұрын
I know I'm uh... about 5 years late but what's the song laying at the end? Sounds very familiar
@Rowdy4324
6 жыл бұрын
You mean the one credited in big block type at the end of the video?
@cynthiahudson6402
10 жыл бұрын
what is so hard with Billerica ( and for us folks that grew up there its bricca to us) look at the word and pronounce it folks BILL ER ICA
@ZBisson
Жыл бұрын
Some town names that end in ham pronounce the ham. Like Petersham, Tyringham, and Framingham.
@mariannetuohy
10 жыл бұрын
what about "Quinzee"???
@one_punch_puritan4696
10 жыл бұрын
My student advisor thought I said PB, Massachusetts, when in actuality I said Peabody.
@Rowdy4324
10 жыл бұрын
It's hard living in Tanner Town.
@Xxaire31
5 жыл бұрын
I can say enough how much I hate the way folks from Mass pronounce “Peabody”
@teambranches
10 жыл бұрын
How 'bout Tewksbury?
@shanemagalhaes93
7 жыл бұрын
All these people trying to say they know about Massachusetts though. Worcester is woosta and shrewsbury is pronounced shrewsbury. We don't neglect r's or ah's unless they're alone or at the end of a word
@Flars-rd5ob
7 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Wista. Relatives in Shrews-bree. ;-)
@singlesideman
6 жыл бұрын
xicota it is definitely Wista.
@JordanRagus
10 жыл бұрын
Psh, what, no mention of Gahdna-hey? Where my Gardner at?
@anthonycorreia3017
7 жыл бұрын
What about Leicester?
@sandsoftime1954
6 жыл бұрын
Is anyone from Air Ma. (Ayer) ?
@EnergyChasms
3 жыл бұрын
Home sweet home!
@MrBuffedNerd
10 жыл бұрын
Haverhill (Hell Town) in da house! nice to know I have been in every city mentioned here for one reason or another.
@litojonny
8 жыл бұрын
2:05 LMFAO THAT SOUND
@Davanthall
5 жыл бұрын
I guess the last 28 years I spent growing up in Massachusetts was all just an incorrect dream... I hate when people says “this is how people from Massachusetts say it”, because 99% of the time, no, that’s not how people from “Massachusetts” say it, that’s how people from SOUTHIE say it. And this video is no exception. Granted people from Southie think that the entire state of Massachusetts and Southie are one in the same, because people from Southie think they’re the center of the universe, but still....
@shadowbrat4
10 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that most of the towns are in Essex County. There is one I can think of that you missed though ... what about Leicester?
@Rowdy4324
10 жыл бұрын
Leicester will be in the sequel. That was the first one I wrote down.
@Marilovelace
7 жыл бұрын
Rowdy4324 you do realize That some town even one here in thei video does prounonce the ham dislike
@jodyhart1205
10 жыл бұрын
The "h" is silent in Amherst. But it is fully pronounced in Wareham. The "l" is silent in Holyoke as well. It is pronounced Ho-yoke.
@CashCatMoney
10 жыл бұрын
In Western Mass the "l" is pronounced in Holyoke.
@pinkymcflowers4132
10 жыл бұрын
Tiffany Tan Agree. It's Hol-yoke, not Ho-yoke. Although, with the way Holyoke is going, Ho-yoke might not be a bad description....
@nadinenc3097
3 жыл бұрын
We pronounced it Ware-em
@jodyhart1205
3 жыл бұрын
@@nadinenc3097 I have a friend from East Wareham and she is adamant that the "h" is pronounced. But that was forty years ago.
@jodyhart1205
3 жыл бұрын
@@CashCatMoney I live here in Springfield (011108) and have been told for the last 30 years the "l" is silent. I guess you can say they want to get the "L" out of Holyoke.
@drewanderson8197
9 жыл бұрын
Why does everyone leave out Leicester?
@floydian131
6 жыл бұрын
Drew Anderson cuz Leicester sucks
@jlewis162
10 жыл бұрын
What about Framingham? We say ham there.
@JBZROZEable
10 жыл бұрын
Might want to add Tewksbury ;)
@madtho
2 жыл бұрын
WareHAM and EastHAM, but yeah, mostly right. My favorite part is that EastHAM and Chatham (Chat’m) are one town apart.
@Rowdy4324
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Thanks.
@Rowdy4324
11 жыл бұрын
Just trying to help and have fun.
@brendanhennessey8884
10 жыл бұрын
The only thing I would say is that there actually are "-ham"'s in MA that are pronounced like ham (Eastham). -ham and -tham towns are all messed up...see: wal-THAM east-HAM WREN-tham CHAT-ham we just can't make up our minds.
@teenagerinsac
8 жыл бұрын
+Brendan Hennessey Most towns with ham at the end DO say um, not HAM. The older and longer residents especially do.
@781Florist
2 жыл бұрын
@@teenagerinsac As a spritely young 68 year old from WAL-tham, I can tell you that everybody who lives here says WAL-tham unless they just came from out of the area an hour ago. Then they quickly learn that it it is WAL-tham MA USA as opposed to Wal-thum in England.
@caseyrandall8430
7 жыл бұрын
Raynum? Its RaynHAM. Guess you have to live there to know that.
@lolaguidera1838
5 жыл бұрын
What about Amherst everyone says it wrong
@nadinenc3097
3 жыл бұрын
Am-erst
@sophiadalton2530
7 жыл бұрын
I have to admit I had to spell where I lived on a test and I just moved so I spelt Haverhill haverill on accident
@sincerelyyourphysicsteache9123
7 жыл бұрын
Wow my town was on the map in the beginning we're never on the map automatically I mean WOW
@jessicawilliams5485
8 жыл бұрын
Um actually in Raynham you do pronounce the ham
@sandsoftime1954
6 жыл бұрын
My all time favorite is the city of Athol. Used correctly in a sentence it's " Man ,you drive like a Athol up here".
@Rowdy4324
6 жыл бұрын
Sands of time Ha, funny
@MrRedneckman100
6 жыл бұрын
How to pronounce Massachusetts town names with a Boston accent 1 bilricah 2 chicahpee 3 glostah 4. Haavril 5 leminstah 6 menthuen 7 peebudy 8 reeding 9 shitsuiate 10 stellahm 11 whenuhm 12 woostah 13 rahveah 13 mahblehead 14 fawl rivah
@Rowdy4324
6 жыл бұрын
thanx
@Geekyglamor123
8 жыл бұрын
Woburn is pronounced Woo-burn
@rogerdean5313
3 жыл бұрын
Funny I’ve always pronounced it Woo-bin
@MsSmitty9
3 жыл бұрын
I think Rick Flair had Something to do with it ! Wooooo Burn ! 😂
@gr8pillock
10 жыл бұрын
Worchestuhsheere sauce is my fahkin favrit! All day guy.
@Rocketman88002
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Nyoo Hemsha!
@KermitWithAShotgun
8 жыл бұрын
Framingham has a ham... No one pronounces it Framingum. Don't make blanket statements unless you're 100% certain it's accurate. Otherwise I enjoyed the video.
@alisongold9448
8 жыл бұрын
Do you live near Framingham? I do.
@lighthowski
6 жыл бұрын
Add Bellingham
@zilentmajority4157
3 жыл бұрын
How about Miford - pronounced Milfed
@Gweeper64
10 жыл бұрын
Summa-vul Meh-fuh
@arthurjackson3287
3 жыл бұрын
I used to live in “Summahvull”
@sma9456
10 жыл бұрын
Swampskit?
@athenathewise
10 жыл бұрын
You forgot Amherst..where only the h is silent
@jph0917
3 жыл бұрын
Billerica, named for Billericay, Essex, England. Anglican pronunciation Bill-er-rick-ah. Remember the rules of the English Language. Words with ar; er; ir; or & ur in them are pronounced like the letter R. Billerica was a hot bed of anti British sediment during the revolution, so we changed the pronunciation from Bill-er-rick-ah to Bill-rick-ah
@eileenoliver582
10 жыл бұрын
My home town.... Waltham.... should have made this list. It is NOT "WAL-thumb", as many who are unfamiliar with the town pronounce it.
@eileenoliver582
10 жыл бұрын
Oh, and I live in Gloucester now LOL!
@genevieve.haynestypingvids368
6 жыл бұрын
I love Gloucester!!!!
@thedonkey098
9 жыл бұрын
you left out the little town next to methuen, dracut out of stater say drakit lol
@Kenf508
10 жыл бұрын
So every town in mass has alternate pronunciations like every other word in the English language.
@seancassidy9897
4 күн бұрын
most of these are simply the English pronunciations - the phonetic butchering started long ago in Britain. Leominster is now down to two syllables in England (Lemster).
@minccinoandmanectric9495
4 жыл бұрын
1:33 I live here. YES.
@Rowdy4324
11 жыл бұрын
I've heard those go both ways.
@sevresblue
10 жыл бұрын
GREAT - and I would stress that "Hingham" is "Hingum", not "Hing Ham", and Fall River definitely has no 'r' on the end "Fawriva", and Taunton - well, ,let's get all Indian on you and pronounce it correctly "Tah'n" (there being that 'click' where the apostrophe is). Oh! Assonet! (I once had a visitor ask where "Ass-o-net" was. When we picked ourselves up off the floor we realized where he meant. For your next video!~
@rickifake02
10 жыл бұрын
The "Ham" IS pronounced in Ashburnham!
@gesslar
10 жыл бұрын
They also say "chowdah" so...
@rickifake02
10 жыл бұрын
That's just in Boston :p
@lindanorris2455
2 жыл бұрын
NOBODY. NOBODY IN MAASACHUSETTS SAYS ASHBURNHAM..THEY SAY "ASH"..WHATEVER!
@rickifake02
2 жыл бұрын
@@lindanorris2455 I am from MA and one of my friends from college is from Ashburnham
@dokofluv
10 жыл бұрын
Worcester pronounced wist-er or if your more local wist-ah
@nadinenc3097
3 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that Charlestown people pronounce it more like Charleston. No?
@margarethodgson9977
9 жыл бұрын
You were doing so well till too got to raynham pronounce rain ham I live in Taunton
@aphexxed4917
9 жыл бұрын
I live in Middleboro and we pronounce it "rainum" so I think it goes both ways
@WWard-uy1le
10 жыл бұрын
Except Wareham. Where-Ham. There is no -um there.
@teenagerinsac
8 жыл бұрын
+Wendl Ward How long have you been around? We certainly DON't say Ware Ham :) 56 yr old ex Bostonian here.
@teenagerinsac
8 жыл бұрын
Are you SURE???? :) Wicked sure???
@WWard-uy1le
8 жыл бұрын
+teenagerinsac very.
@teenagerinsac
8 жыл бұрын
Well, you listen to some older folks who are in their 60's and up- you will hear it pronounced Ware-um :)
@WWard-uy1le
8 жыл бұрын
+teenagerinsac they all said Wareham. guess we know different old people. lol
@Denise-hg4yo
4 жыл бұрын
You actually said Woburn wrong. That's how someone from Boston might say it. Here in Woburn we say it like Whoo-Burn. Say say the wo part like you may say it while excited about something. You say burn the same way you would say "Let the candle burn."
@Rowdy4324
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this take. I will take it under consideration
@Denise-hg4yo
4 жыл бұрын
@@Rowdy4324 Yw
@wolfmanjim
10 жыл бұрын
Many of these pronunciations are taken directly from the British.
@anotherdave5107
5 жыл бұрын
go to the East Anglia area of England and you'll see hull, hingham, weymouth etc. They stole all the names from Ma towns!
@stanyen8831
11 жыл бұрын
What, no Barre? And there is a ham in Petersham.
@john.andrew.brighton
8 жыл бұрын
Woo-stah-sheer
@mac8596
7 жыл бұрын
Woah woah woah... Chicopee? Really? Not saying no, but I never even realized..
@lesnicg88xxx
10 жыл бұрын
You forgot Tewksbury
@john.andrew.brighton
8 жыл бұрын
I love Worcestershire sauce
@Catia-hk6tw
6 жыл бұрын
I’m from raynham and we say it RAIN-HAM
@iwearpants18
10 жыл бұрын
For the record, those who live in ashburnham most definitely pronounce the ham.
@kmcelman
10 жыл бұрын
I hear people butcher Natick on a regular basis. It's Naydick, not Nah-tick. And Framingham has a distinct ham in it as well. How about Canton? Norwood? The list goes on and on...
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