[Ads-l] Boston regional as heard in movies

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 26 00:33:08 UTC 2015


https://www.yahoo.com/movies/best-and-worst-boston-accents-in-movies-192642090.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

https://goo.gl/3WHgVo

Much quoting of Mef.fid/Medford, Massachusetts, native, John McCarthy,
fellow Jesuit-high-school grad and MIT-nik. He taught me that "Somerville"
is pronounced [s^m at vl].

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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