The highly mimicked, oft-mocked Boston accent populates some of the industry’s most iconic films and TV shows with its non-rhotic (r-dropping) pronunciation, highly particular slang, and gravelly ...
Translation from Pure Bostonian: Bear, pear, bear, chair. Yes friends, every once in a blue moon we get an accent so Boston it charms a nation. Make that chaahms. Andover native Romano Duncan, 25, has ...
From call-in radio shows to corner bars, the accent that defined Boston is losing ground. A Dartmouth linguist has research to prove it. The iconic dropped "r" sound is disappearing. But to those who ...