[BC] Local pronunciations

[Bill Brister]

There are so many of these examples in New Orleans that a website was made
to list them. The local accent is called "yatspeak" from the popular
greeting "Hey, whereyat".

http://www.gumbopages.com/yatspeak.html

Bill B.
Houston, TX


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Here in Massachusetts, you can always tell the out-of-towners.  We have
a raft of place names that are pronounced nowhere near what they look
like.  A few examples:

Peabody (PEE-buh-dee)
Woburn (WOO-burn)
Dedham (DED-hm) (similarly, Needham, Raynham, Wenham, Stoneham and a
few other "hams," except for:)
Framingham (FRA-ming-ham), Petersham (PEE-ters-ham), Waltham (WAL-tham)
and Wareham (WARE-ham)
Gloucester (GLOS-ter)
Stoughton (STOW-ton)
Worcester (WUSS-ter, or as the locals call it, WUSS-tah)
Martha's Vineyard (second word is pronounced VIN-yid)

and our grand prize winner, the one every greenhorn gets wrong:

Leominster (LEM-ins-ter).

We also have a few which can be used in jokes, as in:

"Where are you from?"  "Athol."  "What did you call me?"
"What two Massachusetts cities were named after a governor of the
1960's?"  "Peabody and Marblehead."



Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Boston MA  02135-2040
Phone: 617-779-5369
Fax: 617-779-5379
E-Mail: sid at wrko.com

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