Massachusetts regional accent.... unmistakeable. Rs are pronounced at times as if you need speech therapy. O is an AW as in SPOT pronounced SPAWT. Sure is shuwah, CAR is cah. And best of all Harvard is Hahvahd. Where does this come from? Historically, this area was settled by English people whom I am sure brought their accents with them.If you listen the Jamaican Patois, such as is so often heard in Nantucket and on Bob Marley records you can link it back to Old English. Then of course there are the bastardizations that occur as in American dialects in which for example ASK is pronounced AXE. All this has an explanation I am sure, it is just not immediately apparent.
The hard part of all of this is that it is WICKED hard to be understood sometimes if you have a regional accent, y'all, and you want to buy a Burgah in Nantucket.
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