I grew up in Boston and there's even a difference in the Boston accent from one part of Boston to another. South Boston has the most distinct accent. When they talk, you know immediately they're from Southie.
@yassqueen8419
7 жыл бұрын
TitletownAKA Boston ikr no one gets that
@RickSantorumforever
7 жыл бұрын
If you dont mind me asking what makes the Southie accent distinct from other areas of the city?
@mariannacenci
7 жыл бұрын
Rick Jackson it's a lot stronger with the "r" dropping and adding
@RickSantorumforever
7 жыл бұрын
I dont want to waste too much of your time but can you give an example of a sentence on how a normal Boston accented person would say something as opposed to someone from Southie? And what do you mean by R adding?
@mariannacenci
7 жыл бұрын
Rick Jackson did you watch the video, the r adding is something he said about. Park the car in the Harvard yard would be pronounced as Pak the Ca in the Havard yad. While a northie would not talk as recognizable to tourists like the southwest would since they are what most people inpersonate
@cortster12
7 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story: accents are hard.
@DizzyThermal
7 жыл бұрын
hawwd* ;)
@jimreily7538
7 жыл бұрын
Anti Matter Hahd
@rebecca8525
5 жыл бұрын
Wicked hard.
@kjeezy2990
5 жыл бұрын
Wicked hahd *
@BoundInChains
4 жыл бұрын
Nope.
@auroraborealis4185
5 жыл бұрын
What's funny is that for many people who grew up in the Boston area, the accent can come and go, because in school we are taught how to speak "properly" and at home, we learn to speak with an accent. So if I'm paying attention I can speak without a Boston accent. If I'm relaxed, it comes on strong...
@christina311uss
9 ай бұрын
People from Boston that go to college lose the accent. Same for people that spent time away while growing up. I was born there and can't imitate the Boston accent.
@suesundowner6780
7 жыл бұрын
No real Bostonian ever says "Bean Town".
@keegangidley2071
7 жыл бұрын
Sue Sundowner who the fuck even says that
@Wasev
7 жыл бұрын
Sue Sundowner NBA commentators
@mamzersdream1
7 жыл бұрын
Boston people sounds better than "Bostonian."
@titletownakaboston3909
7 жыл бұрын
I've heard people say Bean Town on the radio from time to time.
@rj7790
7 жыл бұрын
Sue Sundowner I was just thinking that
@ramiroisram
7 жыл бұрын
Boston lives matta
@honeybadgerguy9009
7 жыл бұрын
CHeekiCuNt yay go mattapan
@yassqueen8419
7 жыл бұрын
Wiggles. Bahstun Lives Mattah
@Oceanskye11
3 жыл бұрын
@@yassqueen8419 more like Bauwstin
@digitalbritt2k
7 жыл бұрын
Yessss! The R where it doesn't exist!! 😂 My nana drives me crazy!! She calls my aunt Linda "LINDER"!!! She also says "my-in" for "mine"! And "fo-wah" for "four"! Crazy.
@daynaklein4187
6 жыл бұрын
om my gosh so with you on this...to my grandma I was Daner and my brothah was Petah! I still say My-in and still love Boston!!
@goestplus
6 жыл бұрын
My sister and I are Leah and Angela, but all through my childhood, we were Lee-er and Ang-eh-ler. My dad still calls us that to this day lol. I also still sometimes say idear and drawring. It gets worse when I get tired. I grew up in NH so there are slight differences, like my dad will say corn with the same vowel sound as in caught, and says half and calf like Ted Kennedy says past. We always make him say “Your khakis are not your dress pants”. If you get someone with a good Boston accent it’s pretty funny.
@treiviek2
6 жыл бұрын
Drives me crazy too. I hate when people say idear instead of idea.
@juliaisafilmbuff123
6 жыл бұрын
New Hampshirites do this too, "idear", etc.
@jalexander1532
6 жыл бұрын
Or when Tuesday is Tewsdey
@jimreily7538
7 жыл бұрын
This video is absolutely spot on. Explains it really well. The Australian accent has really similar patterns too, and even many of the same phrases and words that Bostonians use but other Americans don't. Very interesting.
@Pshpshpshpshpshpshpsh
7 жыл бұрын
When I first moved to Boston, I got a job as a barista at a Starbucks near the waterfront. And I slowly and subconsciously began picking up the Boston accent from the customers and some of my coworkers. One in particular that worked register with me thought I was mocking him but when he brought it up I had no idea what I was doing. It became instinctive. And now whenever I want to I can push a Boston accent out whenever I want. Haha it's awesome.
@ruggerdavey
7 жыл бұрын
My dad has a southern New Hampshire accent, which has a lot in common with the Boston accent. I start to pick it up when I go home for visits. I had a bit of a southern accent when I lived in the south, and now I sound a bit Canadian since I work with so many Canadians. So I totally get you on picking the accent up without even realizing it.
@sm01845
7 жыл бұрын
ruggerdavey Most people who live in southern New Hampshire are from Massachusetts, they move up there because the cost of living is cheaper, so I think that is why the Boston accent is so Prevalent in Southern New Hampshire.
@ruggerdavey
7 жыл бұрын
IDK. My dad grew up in the seacoast area, and there and southern Maine is where his side of the family has been for a few hundred years. They never lived in Massachusetts. And when I think of the people I grew up knowing, it was the same story. So I don't know that I agree about most people living in southern NH being from Mass and that being the reason for the accent...unless you're talking about right on the border, like Salem and Plaistow etc.
@fredgarvin9262
6 жыл бұрын
Wrong. NH natives have an even thicka accent than yer average Massholes do. A bit different, if not thicka than their Mass counta pahts.
@goestplus
6 жыл бұрын
Fred Garvin I grew up in NH and can attest the accent is just as bad. Cawn on the cob, Haaahf an ow-ah, etc. There is a mountain in NH called Mount Kearsarge. I didn’t know how to spell it till I was like 15 because literally no one says it right.
@paulandkat314
3 жыл бұрын
My wife is from Thailand and learned proper English during her school years there. She's been living here in Southern New Hampsha for twelve years and the other day, I heard her end a phone call with: "I'll talk to ya, layda." Jesus! I wonder who she learned that from? I thought I had kicked my Boston accent to the curb forty years ago!
@cormaclynch3680
6 жыл бұрын
Also actors always do too strong of a Boston accent, while in real life it tends to be more subtle. (At least in my experience as a Bostonian. )
@MarioTheLiopleurodon
2 жыл бұрын
Talking completely normally, then I ask my mom if she wants anything from the grocery stowah.
@diabloakland
3 ай бұрын
This is the issue i have w my acting class rn. They want me to do a stereotype version and i don’t wanna do that
@giovanniserafino1731
7 жыл бұрын
The Boston accent is extremely difficult to imitate. A native Bostonian with a good ear can even tell which neighborhood a person is from by their accent. The North End accent differs ever so slightly from South Boston and Dorchester. Towns on the South Shore and the North Shore have certain variations of the accent easily recognizable by native Bostonians. Personally, I drop the R after certain words, car, garden etc. and I use the broad A in words such as laugh, half, can't, bath and past, but I am from that generation, and that's the way I speak. When Hollywood actors screw up the accent, while understandable, I find it annoying. Better they stay with Standard American pronunciation. Not only is it distracting, but it makes the whole scene look and sound fake. Lastly, in Boston “aunt” in never pronounced “”ant.” Non Bostonian newscasters try to artificially pronounce it with a British pronunciation which sounds ridiculous because our pronunciation of “aunt” is not British, but Bostonian with the unique “ ou” Bostonian inflection. Sorry, only native Bostonians pronounce it correctly!
@moberry5
6 жыл бұрын
I also have the broad A and drop some R's and add a few. Don't understand my broad A. I don't meet too many other locals with it. I have been asked if i'm from England... asked is another broad A.
@giovanniserafino1731
5 жыл бұрын
The Broad A reflects what is know in England as the " received pronunciation" and is standard pronunciation in many parts of England. Obviously, there is a linguist connection between England and New England. As was noted in the video, younger Bostonians rarely use the broad A pronunciation or have a very pronounced Bostonian accent. This perhaps is due to to radio and television where Standard American pronunciation is the norm. Today, many teachers and professors are no longer native Bostonians. In my day, I was taught by old "Yankee" teachers in the Boston Public school system . They had a very distinctive Boston accent! Lastly, Boston today is an extremely cosmopolitan city with people from all over the world living and studying here. Needless to say, none of them have native Bostonian accents.
@prima808
4 жыл бұрын
@@giovanniserafino1731 Guessing maybe you're not from the inner city, but instead a more middle to upper class neighborhood in the greater Boston area. I've noticed, while growing up all my life in winchester, more affluent towns don't have such thick accents but do occasionally drop R's or pronounce broad A's, as I've caught myself doing from time to time.
@giovanniserafino1731
4 жыл бұрын
Prima Murdock you are 100% correct! And yes, I was brought up in the inner city!
@prima808
4 жыл бұрын
@@giovanniserafino1731 hmm, interesting, I stand corrected. Then again, I guess it was hard to pinpoint without actually hearing your accent Lol
@Renegade837
6 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Worcester (AKA Wousstahh). And to my ear, I can hear the difference between a Manchester New Hampshire, North Shore Boston, South Shore Boston, Worcester, and Providence. Yet to anyone outside New England these all sound about the same. But Hollywood (unless the Actor/Actress involved is from here) seems to make us all sound like we're from Maine.
@bakedcat7494
5 жыл бұрын
What would you say the difference between Manchester New Hampshire is from the rest
@AdityaMoudgal
5 жыл бұрын
Straight outta Woostah! Bonyton Hiller here.
@davepangburn
5 жыл бұрын
And just to make waters even murkier, accents in Maine vary (native Mainer here). Common elements like a lot of places; location & time frame. Which part of Maine? Which generation? Most would recognize the stereotypical coastal & Downeast accents. But there is the unexpected too. The northern most part of Maine for instance, Aroostook County. Aroostook County is the size of Connecticut & Rhode Island combined, and has 2 distinct accents across that large expense. The accent of those in the upper-half, which is predominately of French Canadian heritage (a lot up there are still bilingual). And the lower half strangely enough sound like they have a standard American accent that sounds like they are from Ohio . This wrinkle probably comes from Aroostook County's population being isolated from the rest of the state, and no small influence of the standard American accent broadcast from TV/Radio to generations there.
@kylebirch7258
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up there too
@treedillinger5801
4 жыл бұрын
Poland Spring water is from Maine
@TheOneTrueErica
7 жыл бұрын
Loved this video and I really appreciate how specific you got with why certain words and performances by certain actors didn't mesh. I'd love to see a follow-up that highlights any times an actor or actress did a Boston accent well.
@dr_jamie_ranger
7 жыл бұрын
When southern English people attempt New York accents and slightly fail, they sound like old Bostonian accents because southern English accents say words like 'past' and 'bath' with a broad 'a'. Fun fact, I guess?
@gazbradster
7 жыл бұрын
I`m Northern English and i say pAst, bAth.
@maggiemiller5999
7 жыл бұрын
Jamie .And His Ego Have you ever seen "The Story of English"? PBS made it about 30 years ago. People who came with the Pilgrims from Southern England sound like us. They traced John Howland, a passenger on Mayflower from his home in England all the way down to his great great something who owned a restaurant in Plymouth.."The Mayflower" natch. He sounded just like his English cousins.
@BarbieCatt
7 жыл бұрын
Rhode Island has the heaviest accent. It's a combo of New York and Boston.
@humanforfreedom9583
7 жыл бұрын
I'm a Brit and have heard many American accents but I was just watching a courtroom show with judge caprio and it's in Rhode Island and I thought exactly that
@seantoolin8490
6 жыл бұрын
Ted S. Grew up in Rhode Island but loved away for the military 6 years ago but still have that accent and people can never figure it out bc of the mix between Boston and NY
@SuperDrLisa
6 жыл бұрын
Humanforfreedom 95 Judge Caprio is the real deal.
@aidancavanaugh3849
6 жыл бұрын
Rhode island has no accent
@SupahFans
6 жыл бұрын
and often nasal tone like Family Guy's wife Lois Griffin for reals tho 👃🏼
@adamgordon6435
5 жыл бұрын
No actor who isn't from Boston ever really gets the accent, but to me, Jeremy Renner in The Town was maybe the one that came closest.
@TofranBohk
7 жыл бұрын
This whole video was neatly summed up at the end. I often look at movies and TV shows that feature a "Boston accent" and think it's off. That said, I'm from the south shore. I know I don't have all of the features that you mention in this video. I think the problem is that there is no general "Boston accent". It varies from place to place, person to person.
@MarioTheLiopleurodon
2 жыл бұрын
I had a Staff Segreant from Southie. This man's accent was so thick it could stop bullets.
@coreywiley3981
7 жыл бұрын
That was a really good and thorough vid. I'd like to see more that focus on other regions in New England and elsewhere and also taking into account class and other subtle differences. Accents are fascinating to me. I always wonder what are the differences between the boroughs of NY or if there are any. The East coast from north to south is very interesting as are the southern varieties. Also the midwest and the Pacific northwest. I hear really hard "R's when I here people from the Pacific NW talk. Where I'm from in northern, upstate NY...Watertown, there are a varieties of subtle dialects when you compare it to the standard American. I noticed they were stronger in the past and I think that eventually they will go extinct with mass media as well as new migrations of people. Probably now is the time to record and document accents or dialects in pockets all around the country. I find one way to observe it to listen to local news reports of accidents, or emergencies where regular working class people are in the moment and not thinking about how they are sounding as compared to when they are put on the spot like with accent tags.
@ZhangK71
7 жыл бұрын
Ayyyy, I used to live in a town over from Watertown, Mass. And I think I've passed through Watertown, NY as well while going on a trip to Niagara Falls or New York City (I forgot which, lol)
@jerseyirish
5 жыл бұрын
So many different accents in the five boroughs NYC. Parts of Brooklyn is the strongest, parts of Queens is like a softer Brooklyn. Just two little examples but there's dozens of different NYC accents.
@dmaa88
7 жыл бұрын
Vaginer.
@jdub7771
7 жыл бұрын
dmaa88 haha exactly!
@Ki11P0P1
6 жыл бұрын
dmaa88 😂😂
@curtismartin9054
6 жыл бұрын
Dry vaginer
@Calaquita74
4 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Dougherty
@desertgirl3374
4 жыл бұрын
Bruhhhhhh 😂😂😂😂
@mosaic617
7 жыл бұрын
The name of this video is fahhhckin terrible khed
@yassqueen8419
7 жыл бұрын
Ian Curran shat the front doah there is no swearin in nanas house
@lailaabreu8161
5 жыл бұрын
I pahked my cah in hahvahd yahd khed
@heidimsw
7 жыл бұрын
Wonderful vid! Very informative and on-point!
@samantharenee1058
5 жыл бұрын
You can really tell that I’m from Boston when I get angry. For some reason, my accent comes out when I am upset.
@RightAway87
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Merrimack Valley, in the mill cities north of Boston. Lowell, the city where The Fighter takes place is part of the Valley. There are so many nuances to the accent, I understand why so many people can't get it right. The biggest failure actors make when trying to use the accent is when they try to pronounce O's. The letter O is pronounced "AW" not "AH" as it is in the midwest. Boston becomes BAWstin, ostrich becomes AWstrich and so on. It always kills me when I hear actors attempt the accent and only drop their R's and ignore the "AW" sound with the O's. Of course their are many other small nuances only a native speaker would pick up, but the fact so many actors forget to pronounce the letter O as an "AW" sound irks me every time!
@coreywiley3981
6 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to listen to a person with a strong Boston accent have a conversation with a person with a strong New York accent. Also it is interesting to compare and contrast different New England accents. like Providence vs Boston accent or Maine vs New Hampshire or Vermont...like how are they similar and how are they different?
@coreywiley3981
5 жыл бұрын
Wow ! that is a rich heritage of sounds! and that must have been cool to hear! I wonder if in any way your friends accents influenced each other, if Southie picked up on or adopted any sounds unconsciously from Brooklyn or vice versa? I also wonder how they sound to each other ...like it is easy to sense the contrast between a person speaking a standard American accent and another person speaking a different accent but when two people with two different accents speak I wonder how they contrast. I also wonder this with people with different southern accents and different British/Scottish/Irish accents. Another scenario I imagine is like if 200 people each with varying different English accents accents (some varieties of Southern U.S. , New England, NYC,Canada, Great Britain, Australian, Fargo N. Dakota etc..) were stranded isolated on a deserted island for a few generations ... like what would be the result, which accents would take precedent or how would they merge? All interesting and curious stuff to think about!
@coreywiley3981
5 жыл бұрын
That would be wicked cool! ( We always use "wicked" as an intensifier where I come from in Watertown N.Y. too! : )
@joeking5679
4 жыл бұрын
NYC accent to me is most typified by "i'll call her", sounds like "i'll cuhl huh", whereas boston would be like "i'll cawl a"
@sarahcook6323
6 жыл бұрын
The missed Rs and different pronunciations of bath/path etc are characteristic of the Australian accent too (my own). I'm guessing it's the common ancestor in Ireland/UK? Accents are fascinating.
@RandomIOPlays
4 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie it’s kinda similar to the Aussie accent being Aussie myself but only slightly
@tonypepperoni3157
Жыл бұрын
From MA. So glad you addressed this
@jaenmartens5697
3 жыл бұрын
Nailed it! Also, coming from Mass I can hear the variations easily from town to town. I hear a throat clearing in California and recognize the “Boston” inflection!
@raelahage8201
7 жыл бұрын
Boston Lives Foreva !!!! The wata is real dirty Ya ya ya ,💯💯💯❤️
@Mistymountain22
6 жыл бұрын
My mother had a Boston accent. There’s a pond near us called Horn Pond but growing up I thought it was Hon Pond because of her Bostonian accent. I also have a great aunt Claire but because of how they said it when I was little I would say “Aunt Claya”. So weird hahaha
@martinberridge9173
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting point about adding an 'r' - on this side of the pond in south east England people talk about going to the "designer routlet centre of a rafternoon"
@YTOnceAgain
5 жыл бұрын
To me as a non-native speaker, Boston accent sounds like a slight German accent. When I first heard Mark Wahlberg speak, I thought he had a (recent) German background. Listen to Arnold Schwarzenegger; although he's from Austria, I think his accent has some similarities to the Boston accent, too. I'm positive that no matter what foreign accent you have, there's a place somewhere in the US where the locals speak pretty much the same. ;-)
@Nzie
7 жыл бұрын
There are also some unique features in different parts of the state. I had a teacher who any time it was an "ore" sound would actually add a "wuh" - so four and before were "fo-wuh" and "be-fo-wuh". I don't think I've ever heard that crop up in a film anywhere, but it's not unusual among older speakers on the north shore (although it's also not universal).
@DizzyThermal
7 жыл бұрын
Nzie I feel like this could be slightly Southern? Just picturing a 18th century woman sounding like that, haha idk 😂
@myradioon
Жыл бұрын
You hit it on the head. I'm from the North shore and one branch of family originating in New Brunswick/Nova Scotia say things with two vowels "Stow-wuh" (store). Where others in my family say "Stoah" with nearly one. The Boston Brahmin accent had influence on this pattern too as people wanted to sound sophisticated or teachers were more educated. Chair, Hair, Claire, all can be one or two vowels. Sometimes Bostonians make these words into two vowels for emphasis.
@myradioon
Жыл бұрын
@@DizzyThermal I'm from Boston and live in the South now. It is a different accent but both have similarities as it is another accent that kept much old English speech patterns.
@Some0neSomewhere
5 жыл бұрын
One of the best things about being from New England: all six states have different accents. It's easy to figure out each, but you can never master any unless you are from there naturally. Though, I'm from NH and we may have the weakest accent of the six.
@artdeco64
7 жыл бұрын
How was (Englishmen) Ray Winstone's Boston accent (Mr. French) in the movie, The Departed?
@alanthemover2541
7 жыл бұрын
art deco he didn't come off to me as a Bostonian but an Irishman or Englishman that spent years here so it ieas good.
@markmed9091
3 жыл бұрын
My Mom had the hard A in her speech . She learned English as a second language from Portuguese. She would say “ Ba th” and “ Pa th “ as a Kennedy would have . We as kids didn’t pick that up though . We said “ Dallar “ instead of “ dollar “ same with “ Labsta” . We were close to “ Ro die lind “ so our ears picked up their dialects as well .
@e4t662
7 жыл бұрын
So, is the broad-middle hodgepodge in New Hampsha?
@armandosalazar2231
2 жыл бұрын
Excuse me I'm not English speaker but always I was wondering if do Americans have difficulties in communication trying to understand plenty of accents in the whole country?
@lecheparavaka
7 жыл бұрын
So its about not saying the R at the end of words? i just don't get it... (btw english is my 2nd language)
@dmaa88
7 жыл бұрын
Nobody gets it other than people from Boston, so don't sweat it buddy.
@Darling137
6 жыл бұрын
Great summary of the problem with movie depictions. I would only add that the clip/cadence of speech and the "breathless" ending are rarely done right (for the reasons this guy mentioned). Many New Englanders speak much quicker than those, say, in the Midwest or South. Also there's a tendency to add a little nearly imperceptible almost-extra-sylllable with a slight exhalation, especially for emphasis. For example "Over there" becomes "ovah they-ahhh" with the "ey" and "ah" drawn out a little. Or Steve Sweeney in "There's Something About Mary" when he says "What the hell were you thinking?". It comes out as "What-hh. The hell. Were you thinkin?".
@ausgepicht
7 жыл бұрын
Never seen a movie where someone got the accent right. The harder they try the more it comes out like a New Orleans accent.
@damianrandolph4668
5 жыл бұрын
Which New Orleans accent exactly? The fake one you also only know from TV? There are so many differences in the way people speak in and around New Orleans! It can immediately be identified which section of the city they’re from and to which class their grandparents belonged. The commonality between Bostonian and New Orleanian accents is non-rhoticity in general. The letter R is extremely under pronounced in the majority of the state.
@TheLucidDreamer12
5 жыл бұрын
Metro New Orleans accents are strikingly similar to Brooklyn accents.
@auroraborealis4185
5 жыл бұрын
@Francis Serra I think Ben Affleck and Matt Damon grew up in Cambridge and Mark Walhberg comes from Dorchester... In the movie "Good Will Hunting", the characters are from Southie
@mckayladuggan
6 жыл бұрын
At school, everyone was having a particularly bad day. Mind you, I live in MA. We were all slipping in and out of accents all day. I got a really bad Bostonian accent near the end of the day and couldn't say words right. I tried to fix it but I couldn't.
@johnf.r6658
6 жыл бұрын
what movie is that ? at 2:43
@JayFortran
2 жыл бұрын
Most people don't get the nuances. You nailed this.
@Tadicuslegion78
3 жыл бұрын
It's not just the accents, its knowing the proper slang to use.
@e.l.norton
4 жыл бұрын
The "Broad A", particularly the Kennedy example, is probably more a remnant of the mid-atlantic accent so popular with the upper-classes in the first half of the 20th century. You hear it all over old movies. Think Hepburn.
@myradioon
Жыл бұрын
Upper-Class Boston Brahmin accent. The Kennedy's wanted to be Brahmin, went to school and socialized with them. Most Brahmins would tell you they never got the accent right. Yes, it is related to Mid-Atlantic accent and movie stars emulated speech like it. Many regular Bostonians imitated Upper-Class accents and or learned them from upper-class teachers in school.
@alanthemover2541
7 жыл бұрын
fahkin spot on guy. spot on.
@quequechanbushcraft1451
7 жыл бұрын
Why does everyone think we say "wicked" before everything?
@kathrynbellerose6216
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you.
@ronineditor9920
8 ай бұрын
2:42 -- I'm from Chicago and I never thought about that but he's right. Even words like "Chicago" (not R sound but), we say it like "Shi-cah-go" not "Shi-caw-go," not the harder sound.
@gabelogan56
7 жыл бұрын
you meant "Boston accents are wicked awful in movies, kid! ... what gives, dude?"
@FiendsLikeThese
6 жыл бұрын
Is there still a Brahmin accent, lifelong Bostonian and never heard one in person. Also the non-rhotic aspects of the accent come from non-rhotic British dialects not Irish and Italian immigrants, case in point Charleston SC and the Outer Banks have non-rhotic speech as well. I grew up on the South Shore and get mistaken for Australian often, highlighting the differences in Boston accents.
@BadgerCheese94
2 жыл бұрын
Theres a strong Irish influence in the accent too. Esp in the long "I". Oirish as opposed to a flat "Eye-rish." Some Boston folks sound almost Aussie when they say words like "Christ." Irish influences are all over accents esp in the Northern US. In Saint Paul, MN you can hear the Irish influence there as well as the city has a lot of Irish people as well. Theres also a unique posh New England accent. I met a kid when my parents were getting divorced, it was at a support group for kids and teens dealing with divorce. He was from Massachusetts, not sure which city, but he sounded almost British.
@TangFiend1
7 жыл бұрын
The broad A is so neat, my mother in law has that. "Kawkhees" (Those are pants) or the "Bawhthroom" It's an old holdover from ye old englishe accent.
@laurenmary1400
6 жыл бұрын
I have grown up in Revere and I don't use my R's, but I don't notice it.
@MahNamezSketchy
5 жыл бұрын
the accent must come from the British, almost like a downgraded London accent. Say a word in a British accent and then a Boston accent and they actually sound really similar. My grandmother says bahth-room and dahnce but say both of those in a British accent too. Really interesting how languages and accents are formed by history haha.
@treedillinger5801
4 жыл бұрын
It’s almost as if people from New England were just people from England that came on boats 🤔 ...wait! Maybe that’s why they call it New England 🤯 Sorry, just being a wise guy 😁
@thomashaapalainen4108
4 жыл бұрын
I deffintetly still use the broad A born in 1989 but roll the R in bathroom. BAHthrroom but western mass has a different yet similar accent heavily influenced by French Canadian and Finns rather than Irish
@zacharyleonard9413
6 жыл бұрын
why the hell did you put apostrophes on "do's"
@AnGhaeilge
7 жыл бұрын
This is the same here in Ireland. I've yet to see a non Irish actor really nail an Irish accent. Paddy Considine did well in In America, but his dad was Irish so that's probably why.
@xkristixx
5 жыл бұрын
YES THANK YOU. My mother in law always says "saw" but it sounds like "sawer." It's SO slight that my husband and mother in law DON'T BELIEVE ME. I literally pay such close attention that I always notice it.
@robbyrobrob1
7 жыл бұрын
I had a thick accent starting at BU. For some reason that place was populated by New Yorkers who thought my broad "A" Boston was hilarious. I dropped that sound fast, now only a shadow remains - never stopped having a feeling of loss.
@maggiemiller5999
7 жыл бұрын
First off, no Kennedy after Rose has/had a Boston accent. They weren't born here, for the most part, the didn't live here. Brookline, New York, Palm Beach, London, Hyannis, boarding schools and DC/Virginia. Affleck was born in Berkeley, CA & lived in Cambridge. He can still love Boston sports teams, but he was never a Bostonian. Same with Damon.
@gemmaleone514
7 жыл бұрын
Damon's cute. We can claim him. Maybe if he spent some time in Chelsea. Hint Hint. :-P
@maggiemiller5999
7 жыл бұрын
Paul Bacera Didn't say it made him a Californian. What it does mean is that he didn't really have a Bostonian influence on his speech pattern. You get it from growing up under the close influence of native speakers like parents. Also, Affleck lived everywhere but Boston. Berkeley, Falmouth, and Cambridge (which is a city all it's own and not part of Boston).
@maggiemiller5999
7 жыл бұрын
Paul Bacera It was 5 months ago. Maybe I just felt like it. Maybe I will now go through every video on KZitem and add a comment mentioning Affleck's non-native status.
@Theringodair
4 жыл бұрын
Kennedy was from Brookline, Mass. Somewhere near Boston.
@cindymananzalamartinez6679
5 жыл бұрын
so how do you pronounce rare?
@HandspunTreasures
5 жыл бұрын
cindy mananzala martinez I’m not a Bostonian but from what I’ve picked up from several native friends it’s ray-yah.
@cindymananzalamartinez6679
5 жыл бұрын
i see...so you only ommit on the last syllables...thanks
@myradioon
Жыл бұрын
Even in Boston people pronounce things very differently often depending on their background. Some people say 'I'm going to the "Stow-wuh" (store) with two distinct vowels. Other people say "Stoah" with nearly one vowel. Same with "Chair" or girls name "Claire" -sometimes it's "Clay-ya" two vowels and to other people it's "Claia" - one nearly one vowel. Sometimes you make these kinds of words two vowels to emphasize it. The upper-class Brahmin accent that the Kennedy's imitated is dying but still influenced regular Boston speech as regular people often wanted to sound sophisticated.
@ralphwinfield2872
Жыл бұрын
Wow, Kid, ya wicked good! Ever been to Lynn or Peabody??-
@ralphwinfield2872
Жыл бұрын
@@mythai05 I lived in Lynn at 3 Piedmont Street and went to English and New Prep. I also lived in the Kingdom of Thailand and spent 55 days in Bumrungrad International Hospital because four male Thais and one wicked fat Cambodian Cunt tried to rob me in front of the Dongdaemun Hotel near Walking Street in Bangkok City on 26 September, 2013
@Longlivegoldeness
5 жыл бұрын
I’m from Eastern CT, we’ve always had it in my family 🤷🏼♂️
@pkamoments4798
5 жыл бұрын
The boston accent is such a cool and interesting part of the culture and heritage there.
@BadKarma714
4 жыл бұрын
The Town and Departed also Good Will Hunting did really good besides Robin Williams like you said
@win_cole
2 жыл бұрын
The Bostonian half of the cast for sure
@PradeepPurple
6 жыл бұрын
Isnt the Broad A more an British English thing?
@stphnmrrs3982
7 жыл бұрын
Non rhotic speech isnt just a working class thing, go down to Charleston and Savannah and a lot of the old established upper class families drop r's. Like one of my buddies mama's says Chawlston.
@MarioTheLiopleurodon
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of confusion probably comes from the popularity of various NY accents getting confused & mixed into the Boston accent. For example, New Yorkers will say "Caufey" (coffee), while Bostonians will say "cah-fey". To voice my grandfather who lived in the North End of Boston, saying: "here, grab an orange", it would sound like "heeyh, grab an ahrringe"; with the O in "Orange" sounding more like the A in the word "part". It almost sounds like R-inge (saying the name of the letter R; Are-inge). If he was from NY, he would call it an "Auwringe." Here, the O sounds like the double "oo" in the word "door". It has that "oowah" kind of sound to it.
@AndeePandCompany
5 жыл бұрын
My mom says Bhath (bath) and Cahnt (can’t) and it cracks me up everytime! She also says Win-da for Window! My Boston accent is a bit more modern by comparison!
@jgfunk
4 жыл бұрын
Did the report on Cuber have enough datar in it? If not, I will talk to Amander.... She worked wicked hahd on it....
@strangemarkings
6 ай бұрын
This was wicked informative
@jakethegreeneyedsnake1497
4 жыл бұрын
Love how they show founders taps. Michigan love baby!
@gabelogan56
7 жыл бұрын
I always thought that Julianne Moore in 30rock was *meant as a joke* on horrible boston accents in movies and tv. If not, my lord is that embarrassing. She should hide in a cave somewhere.
@moberry5
6 жыл бұрын
Julianna Moore sounded Jersey to me...
@Space_Cadet_
7 жыл бұрын
I feel bad that I can't replicate the accent properly, both of my parents are from surrounding cities and their accents are really thick
@jpowell7899
7 жыл бұрын
from Maine here
@SupahFans
6 жыл бұрын
Maineiac
@sailorarwen6101
6 жыл бұрын
The Boston accent is difficult and unique for sure. It’s rare I’ll say something and people can tell I’m from Massachusetts but I can always tell. This was interesting
@latenightlogic
4 жыл бұрын
Occurred, Larry Bird... When he says that he’s unintentionally going directly into an Australian accent.
@SupahFans
6 жыл бұрын
📽ironically Filmed on Location from New York City's Proffesah Thom's 🤓 ehhhh As much as Boston SupahFans appreciate that oasis behind enemy lines, a true Bastion of Bartending pouring pints of Stout or Harpoon with NESN on flat screens, your NYC set is kinda feckin' sacrilegious, dontchya think, Slate? Coulda just driven the 4 hours to film from Sullivan's Tap 85 year old Boston Gahden hockey bar. Cheeyahs & Beeyahs to ya tho for tryin'🍺
@ZoraTheberge
6 жыл бұрын
The Intrusive R sound is very much my great Aunt Joann who’s of the older generation with her thick accent. I have another friend Isobel who’s accent is a little lighter.
@SandraLovesRoses
6 жыл бұрын
Just in movies? How about in general?
@spiritworldtv1577
6 жыл бұрын
It's not that Depp didn't commit to dropping the R, he just didn't put the accent on Ehhh-vah like u did. Also there are something like 5-8 different accents like in 13 mile radius. so there's that
@JMaxfield09
2 жыл бұрын
I think Boston's dropped "r" dates back to Massachusetts' roots as a British colony. But we also substituted d's for t's, so that when we sing about the Charles River, it's not "Duh-tee Waw-tah" but "Dih-dee Waw-dah." On the other hand, "wicked awesome" might sound the same in both Boston and Britain.
@ceeceesrevenge33
5 жыл бұрын
Still have my Boston accent and I live in the Deep South. Wicked proud of my accent!
@kerrymcmahon9671
4 жыл бұрын
As u should be!!! Boston is awesome!!!!!!!! I am a Boston girl myself!!! ☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️
@shanedurban
7 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@Jam3zGe51990
7 жыл бұрын
SO Accurate! thank you!!
@raquel_sza
7 жыл бұрын
I don't even have a Boston accent but I live there and caught and cot sound the same??? Like it's supposed to?? I don't even drop my Rs
@HandspunTreasures
5 жыл бұрын
sage socks caught and cot are not supposed to sound the same. That was his point. In other places it’s phonetically cawt for caught and caht for cot.
@hanifahsalsabila2684
6 жыл бұрын
Boston accent sounds like a mix of English/Aussie and American accent
@ronnishawalton4473
5 жыл бұрын
Hanifah Salsabila 💀oof Tbh I don’t even know if I have a Boston accent because I was born in Boston but grew up in a different city that’s like right next to Boston
@Grimmarox
6 жыл бұрын
I want to point out that as a native Bostonian. We do not have an accent. We have maintained and used the language brought over from England. We may have put some changes but if you watch a movie and English actors all drop their "Rs".
@haleyt6549
5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Cape Cod MA and so many people think that people around here have a Boston accent. I don't get it! I'm like "Did you fail geography, buddy? I mean I just wanted to let you know that not all Massachusetts is just like Boston." It drives me crazy. The Cape Cod accent may sound a bit like a Boston one, but they are definitely different. Lol
@gothamknight9758
7 жыл бұрын
Its east to understand if ur from long island w an li accent. Everything we say with an 'aw' is replaced with an 'ah' and vice verse
@VladVlad-ul1io
7 жыл бұрын
Which american accent is closest to the British accent or at least the Colonial accent?
@BIastwave.
7 жыл бұрын
Avadhut Kasinadhuni Probably some upper class southern accent
@terminalfrost3645
7 жыл бұрын
pronounciation of boston accent is like northern english accent ponounciation, like eg. sumtimes, vaginer, nevva(never) ect ect. one person to check out; Joe Gilgun.(lancashire accent) or try manchester, scouse accent.
@CanOfMinus
7 жыл бұрын
That would most likely be the "Transatlantic" accident, which is all but dead in America and was generally spoken by upper class people who attended boarding schools in England or in New England area with English teachers. This accent was also learned by actors in older black & white films and radio because it worked better with the sound equipment. It has the non-rhetoric R and hard consonants that pop (which made it good for old sound recording equipment). I grew up in the suburbs of Massachusetts, lived for 8 months in Ohio in my early teens and ended up in Las Vegas during high school. One thing I noticed living outside of NE is that New Englanders tend to pronounce words closer to the English (UK) roots i.e. using the U in aunt versus saying 'ant.' And using words like 'supper' instead of 'dinner.'
@Claymor621
7 жыл бұрын
CanOfMinus Like Katherine Hepburn
@TheSatelliteCowboy
7 жыл бұрын
There is no "British Accent", because Britain is composed of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England,- and each country has its own accent, as well as regional accents. By "The British Accent" do you mean the English Accent? If so, what was known as the transatlantic accent comes to mind. It was very common for famous movie stars in the early years of Hollywood black and white movies to speak with this accent. Bette Davis, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts is one great example.
@ni9aszeven347
6 жыл бұрын
This is one of my BIGGEST movie peeves. You can't teach it.
@goldiefatale
5 жыл бұрын
as a southerner..in reality..it all sounds similar enough to not be noticeable in most movies to us..a middle of the road accent will work for non new Englanders.
@ZteveW
7 жыл бұрын
Good lesson!
@herurishardana5618
6 жыл бұрын
There's this movie titled "Boston Accents" starring Seth Meyers that captures the distinctive accent flawlessly.
@rebecca8525
5 жыл бұрын
The misconception is that Bostonians drop the "R" sound at the end of words and replace it with an "ah" sound. They don't. They sort of clip the "R" sound. "R" is a diphthong, meaning it's a sound made out of two sounds put together. Bostonians pronounce the first half of the "R" diphthong but leave out the second.
@azforthlol
7 жыл бұрын
"They often leave it in when it's before a vowel". Sorry this should say "They always leave it in before a vowel" otherwise how the hell would they know the difference between "rod" and "odd". "R- dropping" is a poor way to conceive of non-rhotic speech, it's not some odd quirk where people in a certain area skip out a sound (see h-dropping), but an entirely different way of realising the role the letter -r in the phonetics of the English language. In most rhotic dialects the letter -r continues to impact the pronunciation of a word, so words like carb and cab are easily distinguishable. Furthermore, it's funny you should root non-rhotic speech in Irish and Italian immigration, as this didn't cause non-rhoticism in American dialects. Hell, the Irish pronounce the -r more than most Americans even. If the people of Boston cultivated non-rhotic speech then it was probably to do with trying not to sound Irish, rather than a natural evolution (and this makes sense as Irish were discriminated against). Typically it's British influence post-18th century that causes non-rhoticism. Since the early British settlers in the US were probably universally rhotic speakers, "probably" as we can't know for certain but all evidence points to non-rhotic speech having arisen in early 19th century England, the early US dialects were all rhotic. Those places that had a strong connection to Britain, such as the East Coast port cities, like Boston, and the plantations in the deep South near the coast, were where non-rhoticism spread to the US. From there it spread to slave communities and became part of AAVE. Most mistakes I see actors making come from vowel confusion, pronouncing -o like "ah" and -ar" like "aw", which is a natural mistake for a ordinary American to make, since rhoticism allows these dialects to use fewer vowels and diphthongs than non-rhotic speakers.
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