I have been wanting to write this ever since I returned from Boston. Yes, the Boston of the Boston Tea Party fame among other things. Read on for one of these 'other things' this beautiful historical city is famous for.......!
It was a hot, in fact a very hot day by May standards in Boston, so we decided to take the trolley tour of the city. Th best thing we did - we not only got to see this historic city in the most comfortable way possible that day, but also got to hear about three hours or so of continuous Bostonspeak, thanks to our very entertaining trolley driver - not to take away from his expertise, but we were kept engaged as much by his knowledge of the city and his enthusiasm, as by - yes you guessed it right, his Bostonspeak!
From the moment the tour started our very voluble driver cum tour guide had all of us non-Bostonians on the trolley looking at each other with wonder and amusement at the way he said words like park - almost like pack rather than paaark, to give you the simplest example of how Bostonians cannot say the sound of the r-controlled vowel 'ar'.
We found ourselves waiting almost with bated breath for his next utterance of this extraordinary Boston way of pronouncing this vowel! He finally caught on to what was happening behind him via his rear view mirror and pronounced "Yeah, I know, you are all wondering if Bostonians do not have the letter R in their alphabet, right?" There was a roar of laughter all down the trolley at the way he had pronounced R like in 'arrow'!
Now far from laughing at this feature of Bostonians' English, I think they are probably the most consistent or the most logical of all Americans.....!!!
Find out why in my blog entry
It was a hot, in fact a very hot day by May standards in Boston, so we decided to take the trolley tour of the city. Th best thing we did - we not only got to see this historic city in the most comfortable way possible that day, but also got to hear about three hours or so of continuous Bostonspeak, thanks to our very entertaining trolley driver - not to take away from his expertise, but we were kept engaged as much by his knowledge of the city and his enthusiasm, as by - yes you guessed it right, his Bostonspeak!
From the moment the tour started our very voluble driver cum tour guide had all of us non-Bostonians on the trolley looking at each other with wonder and amusement at the way he said words like park - almost like pack rather than paaark, to give you the simplest example of how Bostonians cannot say the sound of the r-controlled vowel 'ar'.
We found ourselves waiting almost with bated breath for his next utterance of this extraordinary Boston way of pronouncing this vowel! He finally caught on to what was happening behind him via his rear view mirror and pronounced "Yeah, I know, you are all wondering if Bostonians do not have the letter R in their alphabet, right?" There was a roar of laughter all down the trolley at the way he had pronounced R like in 'arrow'!
Now far from laughing at this feature of Bostonians' English, I think they are probably the most consistent or the most logical of all Americans.....!!!
Find out why in my blog entry
Very interesting. I like your light humour.
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