The Bawstin Accent

• 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."

• bayah: Ferocious

• bon: As in: "Where were you bon?"

• bzah: Strange, odd.

• Chahlz: The rivah.

• chowdah: Clams, milk, buttah.

• Con: Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.

• connah: Where streets intersect.

• fah: Not neah heah

• fok: What you eat pahster with.

• fyah: Blaze

• Gahden: What they're tearing down this yeah.

• hahbah: What they dumped tea into in 1773.

• Hahvid: Country day school 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.

• nawtheastah: Stawm 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.

• pastah: The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.

• pichahs: They throw fastballs at Fenway.

• Rawjah: He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway.

• Reveah: He rode through Ahlington on a hiss shouting "To Ahms!"

• shuah: Of course

• shot: Not tall.

• wof: A peeah, jutting into the hahbah.

• yeah: A 365 day period.

• yiz: You, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin down to the Cape tammorah?"

• rum: a place in the house - surrounded by walls

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