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Wicked good Bostonisms come and go
May 27, 2008 11:43 pm
(@grantbarrett)
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Wicked good Bostonisms come and go. "Boston has many shibboleths, linguistic peculiarities that separate us from the rest of the English-speaking world. [...] The most telling, of course, is the Boston accent, the one with the 25-letter alphabet. But there's more to our shibboleths than how we say words; what we say is the other side of this peculiar thing called ‘Boston English.'"