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Originally Posted by PamWinterReturns
Not just Boston. Massachusetts people have various accents but we don’t pronounce our r. Pahk the cah is normal! Winter is wintah.
I’m surrounded by people from Fall River and they usually use Bahstahn accents with Portuguese accents. You hear a mixture of accents and it’s confusing. I say Fall River but most pronounce it Fall Reeve. New Bedford is pronounced NewBeffa by most immigrants.
Worcester is mispronounced by almost everyone. Woostah is correct but you’ll hear
Werchester and Woresistah too.
This area has Indian names and cities and towns like Mattapoisett and Acushnet seem easy to pronounce but it’s comical to listen to people.
Kiev was said with one syllable by my Russian great-grandmother. Kyev was her way. Monday I see my Russian doctor with a thick accent and I’ll ask him his pronunciation of it. I think he’s from Belarus and my people are from Pinsk and Minsk.
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Massachusetts (<- spelled that from memory, btw, very proud) is so funny with its accents. I actually had a foreign cab driver try to say he had no place to "pahk de cah" at night with an either pakistan or indian accent... It came out pay-kuh dih cay! Meanwhile whenever I go there and I'm told to park somewhere, I always goad them to say it, "now what should I do? I should what now? Park the what?" I lived in Boston for a while, it's truly a great city.